Monument record MHG18480 - General Wade's Military Road, Fort William - Fort Augustus - Inverness

NH52SW 11 5167 2000 to 5264 2499

General Wade's Military Road (NAT)
OS 1:10000 map.

NH 5167 2000 - 5499 2378: No evidence of Wade's 1726 road acrosss heavily afforested moorland. From the E-W road at Ault-na-goire (NH 5435 2273), a track, now mutilated by afforestation, runs NE, and at NH 5484 2360, after crossing a burn, a 90m stretch of heather-covered carriageway 3.5m wide revetted on the W side ascends the slope, and has a military road appearance about it.
From cNH 5148 2000 - NH 5375 2215, air photographs (visible on RAF air photgraphs 541/A/399, 4235-7) show intermittantly, a track which, where seen, does not have any military characteristics. Roy's map (W Roy 1747-55) shows the approximate course of a road on this line.

NH 5386 2000 - 5499 2139: There is no evidence for the Wade road having followed the line of the B862 public road.
Visited by OS March 1979

NH 5000 2096 - 5007 2116: The 1732 Wade road skirts the E side of Foyers church as a disused track.

NH 5007 2116 - 5243 2473: The B852 public road is generally on the line of the wade road, but at two places the road has been briefly by-passed (NH 5180 2358 and NH 5205 2382), and from NH 5213 2384 to NH 5215 2407 it has beenby-passed at the crossing of the Allt Mor at Inverfarigaig Bridge (NH52SW 9).

NH 5243 2473 - 5264 2499: A disused and impassable track at Balck Rock blasted out of the hillside. Carriageway 3.5m wide with parapet.
Visited by OS June 1964; February 1979