Region guide

Shooting Hotels and Sporting Lodges in Scotland

Scotland is Britain's wildest and most varied sporting country. The Highlands hold the grouse moors and deer forests of the popular imagination — heather to the horizon, granite hills cut by glens, and the long northern light that turns every day on the hill into something rarer. The Lowlands and the Borders, gentler country than the north, offer driven pheasant and partridge on well-keepered estates and some of the finest salmon and trout fishing in these islands. Whether the trip is grouse in August, stalking in October or a driven pheasant weekend in the back end, Scotland has a hotel — and a piece of country — to match.

A Scottish sporting hotel earns its booking when it sits close to the ground, has a proper drying room, takes dogs and gun cases as a matter of course, and feeds a tired team well. A dram in front of the fire at the end of a hard day is, by now, almost obligatory.