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A deserted township on the hillside in Strathnaver

Over seventy ruined buildings sit quietly on the hillside overlooking Ben Loyal and the empty, open lands of central Sutherland. Once this deserted village would have been full of people, animals and children, but today the subdued remains of their homes and byres are testament to a communal way of life which was swept away by the Sutherland Clearances.

Read the interpretive panels and imagine the daily life of this Strathnaver township in the centuries before the sheep came.

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