Old photograph of the Post Office in Lethnot located five miles from Edzell, Angus, Scotland. Two hundred years ago this was to be the shortest direct route to the south coming from Banffshire and Aberdeenshire, crossing the hills to Invermark, over again on to the road leading to Lethnot. In the same period this road had two names. The first was Priests Road because the Episcopalian minister of Lochlee and Lethnot travelled on it from the manse in upper Glenesk. The other name was the Whisky Road, the joy of bootleggers and the bane of the exciseman. There were dozens of stills on the hill burns, and several could be seen in the Lethnot area until just a few years ago. The making of illegal whisky slowly died away as the authorities became to clever in catching the bootleggers and by 1790 the majority of stills were ceased, with only a few left till around 1830.
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