B858 (Torridon)
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| From: | Torridon (NG893565) | |||
| To: | Kinlochewe (NH026619) | |||
| Distance: | 10.8 miles (17.4 km) | |||
| Met: | Unclassified, A832 | |||
| Now part of: | A896 | |||
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For the current B858 in Drymen, Stirlingshire, see B858.
The number B858 was originally used for the road connecting the small villages of Torridon and Annat on the west coast to the A832 at Kinlochewe. The road started in Kinlochewe and climbed south up the glen, passing Loch Clair to reach the watershed. It then followed Glen Torridon westwards to the head of Loch Torridon, where it it met the unclassified road to Annat. The B858 continued through Torridon to the the pier on Loch Torridon, from where an unclassified road continued west along the shore to Diabaig.
The new road from the eastern side of Torridon via Annat and on to Shieldaig was opened in 1962/3, meaning that the B858 and its neighbour the B857 from Lochcarron to Shieldaig were both renumbered as the new A896. The westernmost section of the ex-B858 in Torridon itself is now unclassified, and is shown as such on the OS One Inch map from 1965, suggesting it was declassified with the opening of the new road.
