Old photograph of Inchory Lodge near Tomintoul in Moray, Scotland. Formerly one of the estates of the Duke of Gordon, it came first into the hands of the Gordons in 1490 when it was relinquished by the Stewarts. In 1935 it was acquired by Colonel Oliver Haig, a relative of the famous field Marshal and in 1963 was bought by D. S. Wills. From the fifteenth to the eighteenth centuries the river in the glen its upper parts provided a useful route for the traffic in booty from Banffshire and Aberdeenshire to Lochaber and Speyside. Military garrisons were set up to try and prevent this. In 1667 the Earl of Athol was commissioned to raise a force and to this has been ascribed the origin of the Black Watch. As late as 1747 several military posts were set up, one at Inchrory. The estate which is sometimes referred to as Inchrory, the name given to the lodge, is reputedly derived from the fact that a certain Rory Mackenzie rested his cattle there in 1600 and in subsequent years when on his way south to the Trysts at Falkirk. The Estate is more correctly described as Glenavon. The Estate stretches South and West from Tomintoul, some 14 miles from Grantown on Spey, on the Lecht Road. It lies largely within the wild and magnificent mountainous district of the Cairngorm Mountains. The lowest ground is 1250 feet above sea level and the highest point is Ben Muich Dhui at 4,296 feet. About 35,000 acres are above 1,500 feet and it probably has more ground over 3,750 feet than any other deer forest in Scot and. Loch Avon which lies wholly within the estate at the western extremity at the foot of the Cairngorm is about 2,500 feet above sea level. The River Avon, the fastest flowing river in Scotland, flows eastward.
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