Where is lairg

Lairg is located at the end of Loch Shin in Sutherland. If you are planning on touring the Highlands this would be a good stopping point and base for you to explore around this area. You are now signed up for the Hidden Scotland Journal, a free weekly email. Would you also like to gain free access to the full features of Hidden Scotland? To find out more sign up below. By entering your email, you agreee to recieve marketing emails from Hidden Scotland. Already have an account?

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For more information about Scotland's single track roads and how to drive them, visit our feature page on driving single track roads. Continues below images Lairg itself is best thought of as a functional centre for the area. Unless you stick wholly to the coastline in northern Scotland you'll end up here sooner or later. And when you do, you'll find it has quite a lot to offer, including a range of places to eat, drink, shop, and stay.

The land hereabouts was not always as sparsely populated as it is now. In the early s the Sutherland estates of the Countess of Sutherland and her husband, the Marquess of Stafford later to become the Duke and Duchess of Sutherland , amounted to some 1. The discovery that more money could be made from the land if it was grazed by sheep than from the rents of the crofters led to what some at the time described as "agricultural improvements".

These "improvements" meant the forcible and sometimes brutal removal of up to 15, people from the Sutherland estates to make room for the sheep: mostly by the estate factor, Patrick Sellar. In terms of numbers this is not far short of the combined population of Wick and Thurso today.