Welcome to Borrobol Estate Holiday Cottages
The far north of Scotland is a secret and wild part of Britain, hardly touched by tourism. At the heart of the north's peatlands, known as the Flow Country, lies Borrobol Estate, where open moorland, lochs and burns sit under wide skies. Borrobol, at one time a Viking settlement in the remote Strath of Kildonan, is now a family estate with a traditional working sheep farm by the famous River Helmsdale.
The Gardener's House and Crocdhu Cottage look straight onto fifty square miles of some of Europe's remotest peatlands, home to golden eagles, wild orchids, ancient settlements and the native red deer which often graze right up to the houses in the evenings. Sutherland's lochs are well known for wild brown trout and each cottage comes with its own fishing boat moored on the shores of Loch Ascaig.
The long, white sands of Britain's most northerly coast are a short drive away on lonely, single-track roads. The area has some of Scotland's spectacular golf links courses and this part of Sutherland claims to have one of the lowest rainfalls in the Highlands.
Every season holds pleasures here, the backdrop of winter snows, the northern lights in the autumn skies, the outburst of birdlife in the spring or the wild flowers and the all-night sun of the summer.
