{"id":30457,"date":"2019-01-28T20:34:00","date_gmt":"2019-01-28T20:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mathewingram.blog\/?p=30457"},"modified":"2019-01-28T20:34:00","modified_gmt":"2019-01-28T20:34:00","slug":"the-bothie-huts-of-rural-england","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/2019\/01\/28\/the-bothie-huts-of-rural-england\/","title":{"rendered":"The “bothie” huts of rural England"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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This is such a fascinating piece, about the rustic buildings called “bothies” that dot the hillsides in rural England, Wales and Scotland — free for hikers to use.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

My overnight home, the Hutchison Memorial Hut, colloquially called the Hutchie Hut, which I visited in late October, is one of more than 100 rustic shelters scattered throughout England, Wales and Scotland that are frequented by a motley assortment of outdoor adventurers. Left unlocked, free to use and with most offering little more than a roof, four walls and perhaps a small wood-burning stove, the buildings, called bothies (rhymes with \u201cfrothy\u201d), are an indispensable \u2014 if for many years underground \u2014 element of British hill culture.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Source: In Britain, Enraptured by the Wild, Lonely and Remote – The New York Times<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

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This is such a fascinating piece, about the rustic buildings called “bothies” that dot the hillsides in rural England, Wales and Scotland — free for hikers to use. My overnight home, the Hutchison Memorial Hut, colloquially called the Hutchie Hut, which I visited in late October, is one of more than 100 rustic shelters scattered … <\/p>\n

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