02 To get to Mitchellslacks you take the minor road for Ae Village off
the A701 roughly 6 kilometers (just under 4 miles) north of the Dumfries
town boundary. You go right on well past Ae village until you come to
a sign indicating a right turn onto the single track road sign-posted
for Mitchellslacks. If you get to Loch Ettrick you have just missed the
juction. Ae is the place with the shortest name in Britain.
The picture above shows where I parked - just where the track goes to
the right down to Mitchellslacks. However Mitchellslacks has changed hands
since these pages were created and the new owners have contacted me about
this saying:
"This information is now outdated and where you inform people to
park is a private drive, serving two properties with extensive vehicle
movements.The previous farmer has left and farm activity has increased
significantly.This is creating huge access issues and there are frequently
10 cars parked there. Whereby we like to see people enjoying the surrounding
countryside this is now becoming a problem for the residents. There is
parking further along [the single track road] on the right by the footpath
sign and further parking on an unused forest access road on the left about
a quarter of a mile along the road."
In the picture below I have zoomed in on the sign at the road end. You
will see that there is a "CT" on the post above the sign. This
stands for Covenanters
Trail telling us that Mitchellslacks
(with the neighbouring house of Locherben) was an important place
in the history of the late 17th century Covenanting
Movement.
The third picture shows the road you will take down to Mitchellslack.
At the red asterisk you bear left. We used to park there.
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