Bothies: The hidden shacks across Britain offering shelter, comfort and warmth to weary travellers
Country Life Trending: Welcome site: a lone bothy at Loch Stack in the Scottish Highlands. Credit: Getty Images/iStockphoto Once frequented by farm labourers and shepherds, lone bothies — often located amid some of Scotland’s most remote countryside — offer a welcome (and sometimes secret) refuge for wanderers, says Freda Lewis-Stempel. In the same way as the astronomer watches for the North Star, the ‘bothyer’ watches for a chimney. The grey stone stack stretching up over the rise of the glen is the guiding sight that the long walking day is coming to an end. There, th...
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