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Isle of Hoy, Orkney
Burnmouth stands beside Rackwick Bay on Hoy. It can be reached from the public road at Rackwick by a short walk across the township towards the shore. Visitors arriving on foot from Moaness can use the marked Rackwick and Old Man of Hoy routes, but that is a much longer hill walk. The Hoy Trust keeps the cottage open without charge and asks for donations towards maintenance. Check Orkney ferry and island transport arrangements before setting out.
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Proximity does not prove that a trail reaches the bothy. Stored geometry is a mapped reference, not a calculated or verified route.
Download all available nearby trail GPX →Burnmouth is an early nineteenth-century crofthouse with an adjoining byre, built from rubble stone with flagstone and heather roofs. The Nicholson family occupied it until the 1950s. It was derelict by the 1960s, then restored in the 1970s for a BBC adaptation of George Mackay Brown's A Time to Keep. The Hoy Trust later took it on as a bothy. It is Category A listed as a rare surviving Orkney crofthouse.