Letterewe is a large estate of several tens of thousands of acres on the north-eastern shore of
Loch Maree, South-East of
Poolewe, in
Wester Ross,
Scotland. It is one of the wildest, most remote and least populated areas in the
United Kingdom.
The estate was once in the possession of the
Clan Mackenzie. In 1835, it was purchased by the
Lancashire coal magnate, Meyrick Bankes (1811 - 1881), who evicted many of the
crofting tenants In 1978, it was bought by the Dutch multi-millionaire,
Paul Fentener van Vlissingen
Paul Fentener van Vlissingen (21 March 1941 in Utrecht – 21 August 2006 in Langbroek) was a Dutch businessman and philanthropist. Ranked as the richest man in Scotland in 2005, he contributed to the development of game reserves in Africa and b ...
, and remains in the ownership of his family. In the 1990s, he negotiated with representative interested groups the "Letterewe Accord", which was revolutionary in its provisions for public access to the estate.
In fiction
''Ewan M'Gabhar'', one of the tales and sketches of
James Hogg, the Ettrick Shepherd, is set in Letterewe.
[Hogg, James (1869). ''The Works of the Ettrick Shepherd: Tales and Sketches'', ]Blackie and Son
Blackie & Son was a publishing house in Glasgow, Scotland, and London, England, from 1809 to 1991.
History
The firm was founded as a bookseller in 1809 by John Blackie (1782–1874) as a partnership with two others and was known as 'Black ...
, London, Glasgow and Edinburgh, pp. 91 - 98
References
Ross and Cromarty
Clan Mackenzie
Highland Estates
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