Lochinver ScotlandLochinver Accommodation Guide - quality accommodation in Lochinver for holiday or business travel. Scotlands Lochinver accommodation options include hotels, lodges, guest houses, camping, bed and breakfast and self catering accommodation including holiday homes and apartment rentals. Whatever your Scottish Lochinver accommodation requirements we will help you find the right place.
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| Lochinver feels like a number of different places, all rolled up into one. Its heart is the main street running along the eastern end of Loch Inver. This contains the main shops and services and is focused on the striking war memorial on the shore of the loch. Facilities including a petrol station, a post office, and a small supermarket, plus other shops and places to eat and drink. |
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Welcome to Lochinver Scotland
The southern half of the main street is dominated by the Church of Scotland,
backing onto the loch. Nearby is the Village Hall and the good looking
modern building housing the excellent Assynt Visitor Centre, a free museum
and Tourist Information Centre. An unsigned turning off Lochinver's main street a little south of the
Tourist Information Centre leads eastwards to the start of the most popular
- if still very long - route to Lochinver's most outstanding feature,
Suilven.
Accommodation in and around LochinverPrice Guide - per person based on sharing room:
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Riverside,
Clashnessie |
Tigh
na Craig |
Mountview
Self Catering Lochinver |
Tigh
Na Mara |
Lochinver
Holiday Lodges |
Assynt
Cottage |
Stoer
Smithy |
Old
Post Office |
Caisteal
Liath Chalets |
Clachtoll
Cottage |
Clashmore
Holiday Cottages Lochinver |
Cruachan
Lodge |
Buailard |
The
Smithy House |
Tigh
Lios B&B |
The
Smithy House Byre |
Glendarroch
House |
Tigh
Na Sith Guest House Lochinver |
Tigh
a Chladaich |
Polcraig
Guest House |
Veyatie |
Tighbeag
Chalet |
Sealladh
na Mara |
An
Sealladh |
Achmelvich
Beach Youth Hostel (SYHA) |
Seafield
House |
Ardsaile |
Mullach |
Davar |
Achnacarnin
Croft Chalet Lochinver |
Cathair
Dhubh Estate |
Lochinver
Holiday Cottages |
New
Hotel |
New
Hotel |
New
Hotel |
New
Hotel |
At the southern end of Lochinver is its harbour, the busiest of the 102 harbours and jetties in the Highland Council area. Here you are likely to see vessels from many parts of the world. Most are involved in some aspect of fishing, many landing catches at the large fish market. The importance of Lochinver's harbour was reflected in work done as recently as 1992 to extend the piers and facilities. Few would describe the harbour area as pretty, but it exercises the fascination common to all working ports: and few can offer a setting like Loch Inver, or a backdrop including Suilven and Canisp.
Close by is Lochinver's most imposing building, the Culag Hotel. This was built in 1873 as a shooting lodge and incorporated the buildings of an existing herring station into its service wing. It was largely rebuilt following fire damage in 1939 and, like the harbour, has seen significant recent extension. Another striking building at this end of Lochinver is the Royal National Mission to Deep Sea Fishermen. This part of the village offers one of the best views of another of Lochinver's hotels, the superb Inver Lodge Hotel perched on the hillside that rises steeply to the east of the village.
At the other end of the main street, Lochinver continues around the northern side of Loch Inver into a newer, more spread out area of development. Access is via a single span stone bridge built in 1821 which takes you behind the Free Church in its sheltered position looking back towards the main body of the village. Returning traffic uses a more modern bridge further north.
There are two main reasons to come round this side of the loch. The first is that it offers the very best views back across Lochinver to Suilven. The ideal viewpoint is an increasingly overgrown rocky knoll beside the road as it begins to climb the hillside. Parking is a challenge, and fighting your way through the bushes and gorse the 20 feet or so to the top gets more difficult on each visit. But once there you are standing on one of the best low level
The second reason to come round the northern side of Loch Inver can be found at the well-signposted Highland Stoneware pottery. This comprises a large modern shop displaying an amazing selection of the output of the pottery: plus the pottery itself where you can watch the stoneware being made and decorated.
Facilities in the village include two self-service stores, butcher, ships’ chandler, craft and gift shops, garage, petrol, bank, harbour, medical centre, pottery, newsagent, restaurants etc. There is also a children’s play park in the village.
Lochinver is situated approximately a two-hour drive from the Highland capital of Inverness, from where excellent road, rail (including an overnight sleeper from London), and air links are available to the rest of the UK.
Edinburgh and Glasgow are in the region of four and a half to five hours’ driving time away.
Buses operate fairly frequently from Inverness to Ullapool (except Sundays), and local services operate from Ullapool on to Lochinver. The Postbus also runs from Lairg, which is the location of the nearest railway station.
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