The UK's most remote pub only accessible by boat on tiny car-free island

The UK's astir distant pub lone accessible by vessel connected tiny car-free island. (Image: Google Maps)

The Puffer Bar connected Easdale Island, Scotland, is 1 of the astir distant pubs successful the UK. 

The tiny island, disconnected Scotland’s westbound coast, is wholly car-free and tin lone beryllium reached by a tiny ferry.  

Easdale Island is the smallest permanently-inhabited land of the Inner Hebrides, with a imperishable colonisation of conscionable 60 people. 

Visitors indispensable instrumentality a abbreviated ferry thrust to get there, which carries up to 10 passengers and takes 5 minutes. 

To telephone it, radical person to property a fastener astatine a tiny shed, with a instrumentality summons costing £2.50.

Easdale Island is the smallest permanently-inhabited land of the Inner Hebrides. (Image: Getty)

The ferry runs each day, with precocious trips disposable until 11pm connected Fridays and Sundays.  

The Puffer Bar is simply a fashionable spot for tourists. It serves pub classics, including food and chips for £15, on with a enactment of drinks. 

Many visitors picture it arsenic cosy and welcoming, and a item of their trip.

The pub is present owned by 2 radical who turned from visitors to locals.

Rachel Devine, 46 and woman Jhennia Leipert, 44, near down their engaged beingness successful London and  bought the barroom from the erstwhile owners who had it for 10 years.

Easdale Island has astir 60 imperishable residents. (Image: Getty)

Rachel told The Scotsman: "We person to instrumentality everything implicit connected a tiny vessel and past we person to usage instrumentality barrels to spell astir the island. It is simply a truly benignant and affable community.

“Everybody does cognize each different rather well. The pub is simply a existent gathering spot and everybody feels a spot of ownership of the pub who does travel in.

"We are benignant of near to ourselves truthful it is simply a bully clip to chill and for the locals and to usage the pub - of course, during the summertime it gets brainsick engaged with tourists."

Visitors indispensable instrumentality a abbreviated ferry thrust to get to the island. (Image: Getty)

And due to the fact that of the deficiency of cars, the land is large for those who bask walking. A way astir the land offers stunning views of the cliffs and sea. 

The locomotion takes betwixt 20 minutes and an hour, depending connected the pace. 

Visitors volition besides spot colourful wheelbarrows, which residents usage to transport goods successful this car-free community.  

Easdale is located astir 15 miles southbound of Oban and 115 miles from Glasgow. To scope the island, visitors indispensable archetypal transverse Seil Island, which is connected to the mainland by the Clachan Bridge, known arsenic the "Bridge implicit the Atlantic, earlier embarking connected the ferry.

The Puffer Bar is present closed for the 2024 play and volition reopen successful spring.