With no roads in or out, the only route is via sea or a two-day hike - but the journey is worth it
in the Highlands stretched before us – primal, remote, and magnetic. Somewhere ahead was The Old Forge, Britain’s most remote mainland pub in the village of Inverie – no roads in, no roads out.
We set off around the steep southern shore of Loch Hourn, a narrow, fjord-like sea loch that cuts between the Glenelg and Knoydart peninsulas. The path twisted through rugged terrain, sometimes clinging to the loch’s edge, and all too frequently deteriorating into marshy ground that clung to our boots andOnce a drovers’ and deerstalkers’ route, this ancient path also has a darker history as a coffin road, along which bodies were taken to Kilchoan burial ground in Inverie.
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