Skyfall location in Scottish Highlands blighted by litter and fly-tipping

The spectacular Scottish Highlands location of Glen Etive, used as James Bond's ancestral home in Skyfall, is under threat after suffering extensive damage from littering campers and fly-tippers.

Glen Etive has appeared in many Hollywood films, including multiple Harry Potter films, Braveheart and The 39 Steps. Dalness Lodge, which sits in the glen, was owned by generations of Ian Fleming's family and doubled as the ancestral home of the author's most famous character in Skyfall.

Local residents Mark and Phillipa Shone set up a Facebook page to document the environmental destruction campers are causing along the 14-mile glen. The page has amassed 1,534 likes in two weeks.

Mar Shone told the Daily Mail: "It's just baffling the mentality of these people, who show no respect for such a gorgeous part of the country. It's the festival mentality that some people seem to have, rocking up on a Friday and partying all weekend."

He reported personally finding tents full of dirty nappies, a supermarket trolley used for cooking campfire food and drug paraphernalia, and said he was considering moving away from the area because of the mess.

The Bond films have doubled as attractive money spinners for UK tourism. In March 2014, Visit Scotland, the national tourism organisation, created a Bond-themed tour for global tour operators, to inspire them to create packages around the spy, which included a trip to Glen Etive.

According to the National Trust of Scotland (NTS), more than 114,000 tourists visited Glen Coe, the area bordering Glen Etive, in 2013/2014 – an 41.7% increase on 2012/2013. A NTS spokesman said that while tourism was growing in Glen Etive, this figure did not include campers who avoided official tourism channels.

The National Trust for Scotland, which owns the northern part of Glen Etive, said they understood "anecdotally" that the litter was being left by travellers "who had been displaced from elsewhere, and/or simply want to find somewhere remote enough to 'party' unobserved".

"The great majority of visitors are well-behaved and are there because they appreciate the landscape for its spectacular views and the walking and climbing that can be enjoyed," it added. "The people despoiling Glen Etive and Glen Coe have no such respect."