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One of Skye’s
most popular tourist centres, Broadford is the
island’s second largest town and was a mere
cattle market until 1812 when the great
engineer Thomas Telford built a road linking
Portree and Kyleakin. Veterans of the
Napoleonic Wars were among the first people to
live here.
An ideal base from which to
explore the island, it boasts two harbours and
is overlooked by the beautiful Red Hills. The
soaring peak of Beinn na Caillich has a cairn
dating to the 13th century containing the
remains of a Norwegian princess.
Broadford’s main claim to fame
involves the fugitive Bonnie Prince Charlie who
not only hid here after the Jacobite rebellion but
also left a ‘secret’ with his saviours, the
McKinnons. It was the recipe for the popular
tipple Drambuie.
