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Crofting is a traditional social system in Scotland defined by small-scale food production. Crofting is characterised by its common working communities, or "townships". Individual crofts are typically established on 2–5 hectares (5– 12 + 1 ⁄ 2 acres) of in-bye [40] for better quality forage, arable and vegetable
In Scotland a crofting township is a group of agricultural smallholdings (each with its own few hectares of pasture and arable land (in-bye land)) holding in common a substantial tract of unimproved upland grazing. Each township comprises a formal legal unit.
The word croft is West Germanic in etymology, derived from the Dutch term kroft or krocht and the Old English croft (itself of debated origin), meaning an enclosed field. [4] Today, the term is used most frequently in Scotland, most crofts being in the Highlands and Islands area. Elsewhere the expression is generally archaic.
Crofts were intended to be too small to support the occupants, so forcing them to work in other industries, such as fishing, quarrying or kelping. [44] In the 1840 and 1850s Scotland suffered its last major subsistence crisis, [45] when the potato blight that caused the Great Famine of Ireland reached the Highlands in 1846. [46]
The Crofters' Holdings (Scotland) Act 1886 (49 & 50 Vict. c. 29) gave crofters in the north and west of Scotland substantial security of occupation of their crofts. Further legislation since, the Crofting Act 1993 , means that the landlords of crofts have very limited rights and being the tenant of a croft is a much more valuable right than ...
The history of agriculture in Scotland includes all forms of farm production in the modern boundaries of Scotland, from the prehistoric era to the present day. Scotland's good arable and pastoral land is found mostly in the south and east of the country.
Fiskavaig was re-populated in the summer of 1923 (along with Portnalong and Fernilea) when the 1919 Land Settlement Act aimed to resettle populations following the end of the First World War, through the creation of smallholdings and crofts. The 1923 restoration of the North Talisker area was made possible when the Scottish Board of Agriculture ...
Lynbreck Croft is a 59-hectare (150-acre) farm near Tomintoul in the Highlands of Scotland. The land is held under crofting tenure [2] and the activities of start-up farmers Lynn Cassells and Sandra Baer were showcased on the BBC programme This Farming Life in 2019. The property enjoys the “magnificent backdrop of the Cairngorms”. [3]