NH1603 : The "Road to the Isles" - Tomdoun Sporting Lodge Hotel to Loch Loyne
near to Inchlaggan, Highland, Great Britain
The "Road to the Isles" - Tomdoun Sporting Lodge Hotel to Loch Loyne
Elevation 769ft
The public road network in the West of Scotland was not developed to its current standard until relatively recent times. Many roads used to be improvements on former drovers tracks, and narrow, twisting and steep as they crossed mountain passes.
One famous old road was the "Road to the Isles", a segment of which ran from the current-day Tomdoun Sporting Lodge Hotel north-west past Cluanie Lodge to Cluanie Inn.
The story of the "Road to the Isles" or "The Roof of the Highlands" was covered by Nicholas Crane ("Mapman") in one of his 2007 BBC 2 TV series "Great British Journeys" about the writings of early travellers, in this case H.V. Morton's tours of Scotland in 1929-33 in a Bullnose Morris car.
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The public road network in the West of Scotland was not developed to its current standard until relatively recent times. Many roads used to be improvements on former drovers tracks, and narrow, twisting and steep as they crossed mountain passes.
One famous old road was the "Road to the Isles", a segment of which ran from the current-day Tomdoun Sporting Lodge Hotel north-west past Cluanie Lodge to Cluanie Inn.
The story of the "Road to the Isles" or "The Roof of the Highlands" was covered by Nicholas Crane ("Mapman") in one of his 2007 BBC 2 TV series "Great British Journeys" about the writings of early travellers, in this case H.V. Morton's tours of Scotland in 1929-33 in a Bullnose Morris car.
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2008
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- NH1603, 5 images (more nearby)
- Photographer
- Trevor Wright (find more nearby)
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- Geograph (First for NH1603)
First in 5 Years (TPoint) ? - Date Taken
- Monday, 8 September, 2008 (more nearby)
- Submitted
- Friday, 19 September, 2008
- Category
- Track > Track (more nearby)
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OSGB36:
NH 16000 03046 [1m precision]
WGS84: 57:4.8921N 5:2.2607W - Photographer Location
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OSGB36: NH 16000 03046
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