One of those remarkable romantic places, high, remote, little more than a cottage, and a sorry end that left no more than a small heap of fallen stone.
Wholehope Cottage was one of YHA’s most remarkable outposts, a shepherd’s cottage high on the Cheviot Hills on the historic Clennell Street, an ancient droving track linking Scotland’s Bowmont Valley with England’s Coquet Valley, Kelso with Morpeth.
It is wild, lonely and beautiful country.
Read more in John Martin’s full account of the hostel’s history to its sorry end in the 1970s https://duncanmsimpsonwriting.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/y950001-wholehope-yh-reduced-profile-2021-01-01.pdf
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