A few yards from the cottage stand the ruins of the mill. In its day, the mill was powered by a water wheel, driven by water diverted down a mill leat from the Chabet, the burn that runs beside the cottage. The Chabet empties into the River Avon at the foot of the garden, and the word “Inver”, meaning “at the mouth of”, gives the cottage its name. The Avon, an excellent salmon fishing river itself, flows into the famous River Spey ten miles downstream of the cottage. A few miles down the road, en route to the Spey, stands the equally famous Glenlivet whisky distillery.

The mill burnt down in 1907, but the cottage survived unscathed. The cottage, along with the mill ruin, were eventually sold by the miller’s widow and were bought in 1921 by Lady Helen Hort, a keen fisherwoman. The cottage has been handed down through the generations for nearly 100 years, and retains much of its original charm; a young visitor to the cottage once asked “Mummy, is this the olden days?”!