Glenbranter is a hamlet and former estate, once owned by Sir Harry Lauder, on the northwest shore of Loch Eck in the Argyll Forest Park, on the Cowal Peninsula, in Argyll and Bute, West of Scotland.

[1][2] The River Cur passes the main entrance to the hamlet, it flows under the two arch bridge called Bridend.

[3] Lauder bought the Glenbranter Estate on 13 October 1916; he sold it to the Forestry Commission in 1921 and it became part of the Argyll Forest Park in 1935.

[4] There is a memorial to Harry Lauder's son, Captain John Currie Lauder, of the 8th Battalion Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders, who died at Pozières on 28 December 1916, during the First World War.

[8] The estate was the location of a work camp in the 1930s, part of the MacDonald National Government's Instructional Centres scheme.