Old Travel Blog Photograph Youth Hostel Alltsigh Scotland

Old travel Blog photograph of cyclists outside the Youth Hostel at Alltsigh near Loch Ness, in the Highlands of Scotland. The Youth Hostel was opened in 1943, the building previously having been the home of the Half Way House Tea Room. In 1934, for one year only, the Scottish Youth Hostel Association opened a youth hostel in premises, former Forestry Commission cottages, across the road from the present youth hostel in Alltsigh. The name Alltsigh is taken from the burn, Scots word from small river or stream, running into Loch Ness, beside the hostel. Local folklore suggests that the burn was named after the last wolf, also known as Alltsigh, to be shot in the area, during the 19th century.



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