A National Scenic Area. Site of one of the many Highland Clearances in the mid-nineteenth century. Best accessed by boat. Chief settlement is Inverie, site of The Old Forge Inn, held to be the most remote pub in mainland Britain, and a post office, which sells Pop Tarts (q.v.) and Kit Kats (q.v.).
17 August 2015
Featureless tv producer steve
Wow, beautiful picture. Not the kind of scenery I usually associate with Great Britain.
What’s a bothy?
18 August 2015
Featureless tv producer steve
Disregard the last question. Immediately after posting it occurred to me that I could simply abandon my usual laziness and google it. Question answered. Ignore the ignorant American.
18 August 2015
Mr. Abelazar woozle
Also the site of an attempt to resettle in 1948 by a group of ex-servicemen, which led to them being immortalised as the Seven Men of Knoydart. Someone (Hamish Henderson, I think) wrote a wonderful satiric song about this event, there was much sympathy for the seven’s actions as the owner was Lord Brocket who’d spent the war incarcerated due to his fascist leanings, or should that be arm-liftings?
18 August 2015
dickhead in quicksand
Good call on Hamish Henderson, that. More info on the Clearance and the Seven Men here.
18 August 2015
EXXO
Cameron Mackintosh (Cats, Phantom, Les) helped the community trust pay for 10% of it but is still a tosser of the highest order.
18 August 2015
dr desperate
Interesting article in today’s Times of London about The Old Forge, the only pub on the Knoydart Peninsula and reputedly Britain’s remotest. The locals have apparently taken exception to the landlord’s “unpredictable” and “extremely rude” owner and set up their own one-room shed (or bothy), to which they now bring drinks and snacks from the village shop. Fair play, and I hope it stays fine for them, but they should bear in mind that the landlord, one Jean-Pierre Robinet, is a Belgian gentleman.
THIS LEADEN PAUL
A National Scenic Area. Site of one of the many Highland Clearances in the mid-nineteenth century. Best accessed by boat. Chief settlement is Inverie, site of The Old Forge Inn, held to be the most remote pub in mainland Britain, and a post office, which sells Pop Tarts (q.v.) and Kit Kats (q.v.).
17 August 2015
Featureless tv producer steve
Wow, beautiful picture. Not the kind of scenery I usually associate with Great Britain.
What’s a bothy?
18 August 2015
Featureless tv producer steve
Disregard the last question. Immediately after posting it occurred to me that I could simply abandon my usual laziness and google it. Question answered. Ignore the ignorant American.
18 August 2015
Mr. Abelazar woozle
Also the site of an attempt to resettle in 1948 by a group of ex-servicemen, which led to them being immortalised as the Seven Men of Knoydart. Someone (Hamish Henderson, I think) wrote a wonderful satiric song about this event, there was much sympathy for the seven’s actions as the owner was Lord Brocket who’d spent the war incarcerated due to his fascist leanings, or should that be arm-liftings?
18 August 2015
dickhead in quicksand
Good call on Hamish Henderson, that. More info on the Clearance and the Seven Men here.
18 August 2015
EXXO
Cameron Mackintosh (Cats, Phantom, Les) helped the community trust pay for 10% of it but is still a tosser of the highest order.
18 August 2015
dr desperate
Interesting article in today’s Times of London about The Old Forge, the only pub on the Knoydart Peninsula and reputedly Britain’s remotest. The locals have apparently taken exception to the landlord’s “unpredictable” and “extremely rude” owner and set up their own one-room shed (or bothy), to which they now bring drinks and snacks from the village shop.
Fair play, and I hope it stays fine for them, but they should bear in mind that the landlord, one Jean-Pierre Robinet, is a Belgian gentleman.
20 May 2019
dr desperate
(For “owner” read “behaviour”.)
20 May 2019
The harbinger of nothing
https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20220802-britains-most-remote-mainland-pub
Could Barrisdale be bothy in question?
4 August 2022