LOCHINVER STORIES

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All Eyes on the Pies, It’s Golden Ticket Time

Christmas is a time of giving, family and, some might say, most importantly great food. So, our Pie Makers want to keep the Christmassy spirit alive into January by giving four lucky customers the chance to win a FREE box of pies!

Community, NC500

Where to stay in Lochinver

While we might be a wee bit biased, there’s simply no denying the facts: Assynt is the perfect base for your NC500 adventure. This remote corner of Sutherland is a place of peaceful settlements, dramatic landscapes and some of the most beautiful beaches in the world: we are not even exaggerating.

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Griogair MacAllein: Highland based award winning storyteller

The old saying, ‘North, South, East, West...Home’s best!’ To me Assynt and the North West is home and most definitely best! - Find out more about Griogair MacAllein and his road to Lochinver!

The Larder

Festive pies and what to serve them with

Fancy a Christmas pie? You’re in the right place. Hand-crafted in the Highlands, we deliver them straight to your door, precooked and ready to reheat or pop in the freezer for a future pie night.

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The Art of the Lochinver Pie

Lochinver Larder has turned the humble pie into a local delicacy, baking nearly 100,000 pies in 2021 alone. If you’ve already sampled the goods, you will understand why, but if you’re sitting there wondering what makes our pies so special, it’s time to let you in on our secrets.

NC500

How to Reminisce on your NC500 Adventure from Home

Whether you visited just last summer, or have been escaping to the area since before it rose to NC500 fame, these are our five top ways to reminisce on the good times and keep those precious travel memories alive.

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Burns Night: “great chieftain o’ the puddin’-race”

Every year on the 25th January, we celebrate the late poet Robert Burns, a national bard of Scotland who before his death in 1796 penned over 550 songs and poems.

Community

Jeanette McCarthy: Administrator for the Assynt Crofters Trust

Jeanette McCarthy is the Administrator for the Assynt Crofters Trust, as well as a writer and painter.

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'A Man in Assynt': the poems of Norman MacCaig

Norman MacCaig was born in Edinburgh, but it was his beloved Assynt that inspired much of his poetry.

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John McCarthy: owner of Lochinver Landscapes

John McCarthy is a landscape photographer and set up art gallery Lochinver Landscapes in 2011.

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Ian Stewart: The history of Lochinver Larder

Previous owners Ian and Debra Stewart set up Lochinver Larder in 1986 and built a reputation for having the 'best pies in the land'.