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who, on here, lives in a very remote location?
Does, copenhagen, Denmark, count?!
capital cities aren't generally very remote 🙂
Remote from what Ton? - furthest from a city, furthest from a town, furthest from a road? I few years ago there was only one house between me and the horizon. But I actually wasn't that far from the nearest town
It's not that remote but I live in Glencoe in the Western Highlands. Just over a mile to the village one way and the pub the other. Some people think it's the middle of nowhere which is sort of the point of it 🙂
just like..out there!
middle of glencoe is pretty remote.
Can this be expanded to which is the remotest inhabited spot in the UK mainland? Any takers on this one?
I`d reckon it is one of the houses up alongside Glen Etive accessed through the forestry from Taynuilt, or Crask Inn in Caithness
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Exmoor national park, pub 3 miles North or village 4 miles South, currently cut off by 2' of snow.
Its got to be one of the Scottish isles, mainland can't be classed as truly remote.
i can just about see norf london from my house. it's got to be me
Do ivory towers count?
Feels like it sometimes where I live!
but not really, south Northants
How about lived
I was born and lived the first 7 years of my life in a cottage by the signalbox just before the entrance to Blea moor tunnel. Ribblehead
I live in Orkney. Its remote in some aspects but I'm a mile from a Tesco's, 5 miles from an airport and have 3 ferry terminals within a 15 minute drive so don't really think of it that way!
Middlesbrough is cut off from civilisation, does that count?
Liverpool, economically remote..
Does Southern Tasmania count?
Well, I live in Surrey, which must be pretty remote as everyone drives 4x4s to get around...
I am in The North.
I win.
ton - Memberjust like..out there!
middle of glencoe is pretty remote.
Not really - its on the main road
TJ- try telling that to courier companies. I'm repeatedly told we're 'offshore' and charged extra. We're on the back road ourselves, 1.5 miles to the A82 in either direction.
teej....................compared to the gorgeous cosmopolitan mecca of leeds, glencoe is very remote.
I can see Edinburgh from my front door and live somewhere more remote than Glencoe. 🙄
Tartan scarf - you say yourself in your first post it is not very remote.
Micklefield, far enough away from all those tits in cars stuck in Leeds city centre today!!!
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6 miles from the nearest road, only accessible by foot, bike, motorbike or helicopter. 🙂
Glencoe isn't remote. Can feel it at times though.
crazylegs............i stayed there with the ctc on 2 occasions in the 80's.
i love the ride up from the blencathra centre, and back via the terrace path on the other side..... 8)
Ha! Skiddaw house. My Mum & Dad used to go up there when they were a'courting, way back in the early 50's. They knew the gamekeeper from Peter House farm & they'd sometimes get a lift in the back of the Jeep he had (or it might've been the shepherd's) Anyway, is it as remote as Alltbeithe YH? Dunno how to do the linky for it.
Tarf Hotel's pretty remote 😉
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This one ( it's Glen Affric on the SYHA site)
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Thats the one!
Fealar lodge nearby has to be in the reckoning for most remote dwelling. Isn't it the most remote farm that works year round or something like that?Tarf Hotel's pretty remote
Nobody on STW a lighthouse keeper then?
I'm about 1km from the nearest tarmac road and 3.5km in either direction from the nearest shop, pub or street light.
I'm also about 200m from the nearest mains water.
I live in the most remote city in the world. But it's a city.
How about Glen Kinglass lodge (between Loch Etive and Bridge Orchy), as far as I know inhabited all year around, at least 10 miles from a tarred road. Bruar Lodge off A9 north of Pitlochry also?
I don't live there but there are plenty of farms in the Cheviots that are pretty off the beaten track. Uswayford (Usyford) is in the middle of nowhere as is High Bleakhope. Generators for Electric.
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Nearly as off the beaten track as the places above in Scotland
That Glen Affric YHA is ace - we stayed there last May... very remote. Admitidly we took the long way round to get there but still.
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Up the valley from the YHA to watch the sun go down.
We're in the Tay valley 100m up a track from a minor road. It's 5 1/2 miles to the nearest village and 25 miles to the nearest town with a good sized supermarket, so reasonably remote.
Some friends used to own a cottage at Kinlochhourn on the west coast. 20 miles along a single track road and even then it was another 10 miles to the nearest place with shops. Not permanently inhabited though.
Stockport, East of Java. Remote in soooo many ways.
Anyone mentioned Santa yet?
my ex wifes parents used to live in a cabin up in the depths of norway it was a 14 km ski to get there from the nearest road 😉