B8039 (Muir of Ord)

This article is about the former B8039 at Muir of Ord.
For the current B8039 in Cumbernauld, see B8039.

Heading north on the B9169 (former B8039)

The original B8039 was a short link between the then-A88, now the A862, and the then-A833, now the A832, near Muir of Ord. The road bypassed the small town to the south, and today runs through the industrial estate before passing the Black Isle Showground. At the northern end, it meets the A832 at a wide staggered crossroads, allowing for lorries accessing the industrial areas, but this junction was almost certainly a lot smaller when the road was the B8039.

Unclassified in 1922, the route gained its number in the later 1920s, certainly before 1932 when it appears on the Ten-Mile Road Map, but was short-lived. The 1935 Ten-Mile map shows it extended considerably to the north-east to meet the then B863 (Black Isle), but in the 1935 renumbering the whole road became B9169, as one of the many changes arising from the A9 being extended north, so moving the route and several others into Zone 9.