Path from the Dumbuck House Hotel

Image: © Lairich Rig Taken: 23 Mar 2018

This is the northeastern end of the path referred to in the end-note (see Image for a view in the opposite direction from the same point. The busy A82 is just beyond the gateposts that are slightly right of centre. The nearer path running across the width of the image is a cycle path (NCN 7) and footpath. As for the building standing left of centre, the first-edition OS map (1860) shows a building there, marked "Lodge", presumably that of Image, which is at the other end of the path. The lodge is now a private dwelling, and I have therefore tried to show it here in a way that is not intrusive. The first-edition map shows a road leading from the lodge to Dumbuck House (as it then was), although a railway line (now long gone) was by then cutting across the middle of the road between lodge and house (Dumbuck House pre-dates that railway line). The road between the lodge and the house is now a right of way, a footpath from the cycle route (NCN 7) to what is now a hotel. The course of the railway line that used to cut across the road between the lodge and Dumbuck House corresponds to the line of a road (not a public one) that cuts across the middle of the path, as shown in Image; that road is employed in connection with the bonded warehouses in that area. The cycle path elsewhere follows the trackbed of the old railway line, but not here, on account of the presence of the bonded warehouses. That is clearly seen on the 1:25000 map, where NCN 7 is marked with orange dots; the above account explains why it deviates here.

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