Ninety-five thousand pounds buys a small flat in most of Britain.
In the Highlands, it buys a mile of Loch Ness.
A 1.6km strip of freehold shoreline on the loch’s northwestern edge has gone on the market, and the price includes the right to fish the most closely watched stretch of water in the world.
What the Major’s Mile actually is
Locals call it The Major’s Mile. The same family has held it for generations and left it almost entirely alone.
It sits near Abriachan, wedged between the A82 Inverness to Fort William road and the water, with established trees and scrub screening the traffic from view.
The strip runs roughly 25 to 35 metres wide with about a mile of unbroken loch frontage.
Secluded gravel beaches. Natural clearings. Nothing built on any of it.
A shared vehicle track runs along the southern boundary, and there is a roadside lay-by at the northern end.
The fishing rights are the real sell
The buyer gets salmon and sea trout rights from one boat on Loch Ness, plus riparian rights from the shoreline itself.
That means legal access to fish the waters that made the loch famous, as reported by Creatorzine.
Steve Tipson, who is helping the owner sell the land, calls it “very scenic and pretty”.
He also suspects the eventual buyer won’t own a rod.
“It would be of interest to somebody, not necessarily just an angler, but somebody who just wants to have the ownership rights of the shore of Loch Ness,” he said.
“That alone is quite prestigious, I think.”
What you don’t get
The title carries the mines, metals and minerals belonging to the property, along with native parsonage and vicarage teinds, an old church tithe that still clings to Scottish land titles centuries after anyone stopped paying attention to it.
It does not carry the loch bed. That isn’t expressly included in the modern title, so the floor of Loch Ness stays out of the deal.
The land sells with vacant possession.
So you can own the shore, the trees and the minerals underneath them.
Just not whatever might be living at the bottom.
Nessie is having a year
Seventeen sightings have been logged on the Official Loch Ness Monster Sightings Register so far this year.
All of 2025 managed ten.
The most recent came on 25 July, when a sailor reported something breaking the surface about 100 metres off his starboard quarter.
“I spotted what I can only explain as a large oversized crocodile head above the water,” he said.
“At the time we were about two miles west of Glenmoriston, sea state was slight and visibility good.
Our position was in the middle of the loch with the head sighting between us and the north shore.”
He never got the photo. “The head quickly disappeared before I could get a photo, as it took me a few minutes to process what I was seeing.”
He reached Fort Augustus without seeing it again.
Why It Matters
Creatorzine’s read: this is a filming location with a legal deed attached.
A mile of private shoreline on Loch Ness is a production base for anyone making cryptid content, wild swimming videos, Highlands travel series or a permanent Nessie watch stream, and it costs less than a studio lease in most British cities.
Location has quietly become infrastructure for creators who need somewhere they control, somewhere that doesn’t require permits or a landowner’s patience.
Cryptid content also refuses to die. Nessie webcams have been pulling steady audiences for years, and unexplained footage still travels further and faster than almost anything a creator can plan for.
Offers over £95,000 are invited through fisheries.co.uk.
Whether the buyer turns up with a fishing licence or a camera rig is the interesting part.
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