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4 unusual facts about Novar House


Novar House

Assynt House was later the home of the artist Lady Isobel Blunt-Mackenzie (b. 1922 – d. 1962), sister of the 4th Earl of Cromartie, and her husband Captain Oscar Linda, son of General Maximilian Linda of Zakopane, Poland.

Novar Estate extends to 20,000 acres (80 km²) between the Allt Graad and the River Alness and incorporates farming, forestry, open hill, traditional country sports, fishing, over 150 miles of paths and tracks, a hydroelectric scheme and the first wind farm in the Highlands.

The eastern lands of Fyrish were added to the Novar estate when they were passed from the Munro of Culrain family to the Munro of Novar family during the 18th century, thus the Novar lands becoming even larger.

At the time the Novar lands covered one quarter of the lands known as Fyrish.


Hugh Andrew Johnstone Munro of Novar

On his father's death in 1809 he became the head of the Munros of Novar and succeeded to the estate of Novar House in Ross-shire.


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