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KINLOCHBERVIE Beautifully situated on
Loch Inchard on a narrow winding road leading north westwards from
Kinlochbervie
has become one of the major
and busiest deep sea fishing
ports in Scotland. Fishing boats, often
based in east coast Scottish ports, land their catches here at the fish handling
depot built in 1988. The fish is then transported in large refrigerated lorries
to destinations across the UK and throughout Europe. |
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sizzling sausages on a barbeque, |
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| In 1994 a Secondary School was built in Kinlochbervie to supply education to the surrounding communities. This stopped the practice of children from the age of 12 years old being hostel away from home on the east coast of Sutherland. | |
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Four
miles inland from Kinlochbervie, at the junction with the main A838, is
Rhiconich. The services here include a Post Office, Police Station and hotel,
and this is the route into Kinlochbervie. Kinlochbervie is set amid
spectacular Sutherland scenery. Close to the harbour is the Free Presbyterian
Church built in 1829 to a Thomas Telford design. Beautifully situated on Loch Inchard, on a narrow winding road leading north-westwards from Rhiconich with splendid views towards the lonely mountain Reay Forest, dominated by Foinaven, 2,980 ft. The road continues for some four miles towards the open sea, fine views, and terminating beyond Balchrick at the fishing village of Sheigra. From here it is possible to follow the coast on foot to the remote Sandwood Bay, whit been described as almost the loveliest in all Scotland where, in the present century, a mermaid is said to hay seen. Lofty cliffs, with detached stacks of red Torridon sandstone, overlook the reddish sands of this little- visited bay. to the north, at the extremity of a cliff-bound stretch of coast, is the lonely lighthouse at Cape Wrath |
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