On the edge of the Cairngorms national park, William and Sonia Marshall’s bay-fronted Victorian house looks on to a tract of the ancient woodlands that surround Grantown-on-Spey.

Amid the wooded mountain scenery of the Cairngorms national park, a Victorian tweed mill once driven by the rocky, rushing Gynack Burn lives on as a restaurant-with-rooms.

Hens roam the landscaped gardens of this B&B, a stroll from a town set amid ancient woodlands on the edge of the Cairngorms national park.

Muckrach Country House Hotel has closed. Surrounded by peaceful pastureland in the Cairngorms national park – a happy setting for the two resident long-horned bulls – the Cowap family’s restored Victorian shooting lodge is within reach of a host of Highland activities.