Rassal Ashwood, near Kishorn

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Rassal Ashwood is the most northerly ash woodland in Britain; the wood is at least 6,000 years old. This short walk makes a circuit around the woods using traces of a boggy path that can be a little overgrown with bracken in the summer.

Terrain

The route is very indistinct and boggy in places; using a GPS can help stay on the path.

Public Transport

None.

Start

Small parking area on east side of A896 half way between the two 'National Nature Reserve' signs. Open start point in Google Maps for directions.

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Walk Description

Stage 1

Park on the east side of the A896 just north of where a track leaves it also to the east. You should be able to see the gate in the Rassal Ashwood enclosure fence about 100 metres away. Walk across to this gate (the lower of two, and pass through. Turn right to follow a grassy path to the right, soon passing through a second gate. There are many wild flowers here in the spring. The often muddy and faint path now leads uphill to the left alongside a small burn.

Stage 2

The wooden stakes are unfortunately not waymarkers - they are transect markers for ecologists studying the habitat. The path reaches a t-junction with another faint grassy path after a short distance, near the telephone cables. The rest of the walk is a loop from here; take the right branch first, which heads uphill. The path is difficult to follow but can be traced if care is taken. When you see a gate ahead in a fence, don't head for it but follow the path which bends left before later swinging back right. You'll soon be close to the fence at the top of the reserve; the path heads left again here, with a view of Beinn Dàmh ahead.

Stage 3

After a very boggy section the path begins to wind back downhill. It keeps just right of the inner fenced area in the centre of the reserve, and then heads over to the right, reaching and following the boundary fence downhill to the left. When close to the telephone cables, find the path heading left which returns you to the junction reached earlier. Turn right here to head back down to the start.

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Rassal Ashwood, near Kishorn

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