ONE of the best sporting estates in the Highlands has been put on the international property market for #2.7m by a consortium of English businessmen.
The 17,100-acre Inveroykel Estate in Sutherland boasts some of the finest deer stalking, grouse shooting, and salmon and trout fishing in the country.
Two foreign millionaires have already visited the Highlands to view the land and 12-bedroom Inveroykel Lodge, although the estate will not go on the market until later this week.
The selling agents, Findlayson Hughes of Perth, will advertise Inveroykel in Hong Kong in the hope of attracting bids from expatriate Scots who want to return home when the colony is handed back to the Chinese next year.
Estate agent Niall Graham-Campbell said: ``We have already had a great deal of interest in Inveroykel because it is becoming very difficult to buy an estate in Scotland which has a full range of sporting rights.''
The Yorkshire-based Shop and Store Investment Company, headed by Mr Stuart Urry of Ilkley, bought the land in 1970 and converted the nineteenth century lodge back into a private residence after the previous owners, who had been running it as a hotel, sold it to them in 1991.
The new owner will also take over the Oykel village shop and post office, four workers' cottages and a 3000-acre sheep farm.
The Inveroykel Estate has a share in the salmon rights for the 14-mile long River Oykel, which has 64 salmon pools where anglers regularly catch more than 1000 salmon every year.
Three species of deer roam the surrounding mountains and several small hill lochs are well stocked with trout.
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