2008
NH1503 : The "Road to the Isles" - Tomdoun Sporting Lodge Hotel to Loch Loyne
taken 17 years ago, near to Inchlaggan, Highland, Scotland
The "Road to the Isles" - Tomdoun Sporting Lodge Hotel to Loch Loyne
Elevation 795ft
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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Previous: NH1603 : The "Road to the Isles" - Tomdoun Sporting Lodge Hotel to Loch Loyne
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- Grid Square
- NH1503, 9 images (more nearby 🔍)
- Photographer
- Trevor Wright (more nearby)
- Date Taken
- Monday, 8 September, 2008 (more nearby)
- Submitted
- Friday, 19 September, 2008
- Subject Location
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OSGB36:
NH 15854 03563 [1m precision]
WGS84: 57:5.1668N 5:2.4278W - Camera Location
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OSGB36: NH 15854 03563
- View Direction
- West-northwest (about 292 degrees)
