Curious corners
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Rags at Munlochy, a fox at Wardlaw.

Inverness-shire keeps some strange corners. In the woods by Munlochy, people still tie rags to the trees round an old healing well, hoping an ailment fades as the cloth rots. West of the city, the Lovat Frasers lie in a mausoleum at Kirkhill, where a famous Jacobite lord was long thought to rest. A railway viaduct of red sandstone arches strides across the Nairn valley by Culloden, and an old graveyard sits between the road and Loch Ness near Foyers. Take nothing from the clootie trees, and leave them as you find them.

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Place of the day19 hours ago

Wardlaw Mausoleum.

The burial place of the Lovat Frasers at Kirkhill, west of Inverness, built in the 1630s, with a crypt of lead coffins and a tower raised by the Jacobite Lord...

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From our guide12 hours ago

Culloden Viaduct.

Twenty-nine red sandstone arches stride 549 metres across the valley of the River Nairn, carrying the main line south from Inverness. This is the longest masonry railway viaduct in Scotland, designed by Murdoch Paterson of the Highland Railway and opened in 1898. Most of the arches span fifty feet, but the great central one over the river is a hundred feet wide. A narrow road runs right under them, and late in the day, when low sun sets the stone glowing, it is well worth the stop. Parking is limited, so pull in with care.

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From our guide6 hours ago

The Loch Ness Experience.

In April 1933 the manageress of the Drumnadrochit Hotel, Aldie Mackay, saw something large rolling in Loch Ness. The Inverness Courier printed the story that May, and the modern monster legend was born. The old hotel now holds this exhibition. A guide leads you from room to room on an hour-long tour of the loch's story, from the ice that carved it to the sightings, the famous photographs, the hoaxes and the scientific searches under the water. The centre also runs Deepscan cruises out on the loch. Urquhart Castle is just down the road.

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From our guide3 hours ago

Boleskine Burial Ground.

Between Inverfarigaig and Foyers, an old walled graveyard lies between the road and the loch, under the trees. A medieval church once stood here, and its walls survive as a roofless enclosure. The one roofed building is a small mort-house, where coffins were kept under guard until the bodies inside were of no use to the body snatchers who supplied the anatomists. It is said to be the only one in the Highlands. Among the old stones, many of them for local Frasers, one from 1730 carries three dents said to be musket shot. Visit quietly, as it is still a burial ground.