Farr Beach

On a clear day a single walker can have the whole of it to themselves.

Farr was the old village here, a crofting settlement just beyond the sands; Bettyhill grew up later, when the people of Strathnaver, the long valley to the south, were cleared from their land to make way for sheep. Some fifteen thousand people were moved off the Sutherland estates between 1811 and 1821.

Above the beach stands Farr's old parish church, built in 1774 to hold 750 people, and now the Strathnaver Museum, which tells their story. To the west, beyond the mouth of the River Naver, the even larger sands of Torrisdale Bay stretch away.