Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Blackhouse at Colbost Folk Museum. The Colbost Croft Museum, also known as the Folk Museum, is a simple open-air exhibit, set in a garden. At the centre of this simple grassy garden is a perfectly preserved 19th century Hebridean crofter's blackhouse, of which there would have been thousands on Skye before the tragic Highland clearances.
A croft is a traditional Scottish term for a fenced or enclosed area of land, usually small and arable, and usually, but not always, with a crofter's dwelling thereon. A crofter is one who has tenure and use of the land, typically as a tenant farmer , especially in rural areas.
Some crofters have the tenancy of more than one croft, and in-croft absenteeism means that tenancies are held but crofts are not farmed. About 33,000 family members lived in crofting households, [45] or around 10% of the population of the Highlands and Islands. Crofting households represented around 30% of those in the rural areas of the ...
The Croft-na-Caber Watersports & Activity Centre, originally planned as a £20 million sailing resort in 2009, [9] now offers additional activities, including hydraboarding and canyoning. The original Croft-na-Caber Hotel closed in the 2000s, though the successor resort is served by other area hotels, the largest of which is the Kenmore Hotel.
Croftfoot (Scots: Croaftfuit, Scottish Gaelic: Bun a' Chroit) [1] is a residential area on the southeastern side of the Scottish city of Glasgow.It is bordered by Castlemilk to the south and King's Park (both the public park and the residential neighbourhood) [2] to the west within Glasgow, and by the Rutherglen areas of Spittal to the east and Bankhead to the north (across the Cathcart Circle ...
Croftnacreich (/ ˌ k r ɒ f t n ə ˈ k r iː x /) is a hamlet on the Black Isle, in Ross and Cromarty in the Highland council area of Scotland. It is one mile (1.6 km) north-west of North Kessock, next to the A9 road and close to the village of Artafallie.
Croft Head is a hill in the Ettrick Hills range, part of the Southern Uplands of Scotland. It offers unobstructed views to the Solway Firth, the fells and mountains of Cumbria and the Pennines to the south and east. To the north, the major Moffat Hills are close by and to the west, Queensberry, the Lowthers and many of the Galloway Hills can be ...
The first Crofters Commission was established in 1886 by the Crofters' Holdings (Scotland) Act. [2] The modern Crofters Commission was established by the Crofters (Scotland) Act 1955. The name of the Commission changed to the Crofting Commission in 2012 following the coming into force of the Crofting Reform (Scotland) Act 2010.