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An idyllic 453-acre private island is up for sale off the west coast of Scotland and it comes with sandy beaches, puffins galore, seven houses, a pub, a helipad and a flock of black-faced sheep.
If you're looking for a permanent island getaway and have about $351,000 to spare, then Linga island in Scotland is waiting for you. Nestled off the coast of the Shetland Isles lies a 63.75-acre ...
Just about 1.5 miles away from the mainland, Tanera Mòr spans about 1.2 miles wide and 1.6 miles long.
Pladda (Scottish Gaelic: Pladaigh) is an uninhabited island 1 km (0.62 mi) off the south coast of the Isle of Arran in the Firth of Clyde at grid reference, western Scotland. It is home to the automated Pladda Lighthouse. The island is privately owned, having been put up for sale by Arran Estate in 1990. [1]
Many of Scotland's islands are connected to the mainland and/or other islands by bridge or causeway. Although some people consider them no longer to be islands, they are generally treated as such. Outer Hebrides. Many of the islands of the southern Outer Hebrides have been joined to other islands by causeways and bridges. These include: Baleshare
The island was for sale from 2013 for over a year but was taken off the market early in 2015 when Siva-Jothy sold his estate in the north of Scotland and moved back to live permanently on Eilean Righ. Siva-Jothy and his wife—who studied Mandarin at SOAS, where Johnston had been the first professor of Chinese—now reside full-time on the island.
The Community Empowerment (Scotland) Act 2015 extended the Community Right to Buy to communities of any size, including those in urban areas. The Land Reform (Scotland) Act 2016 allows ministers to compel landowners to sell if they decide that the sale will further sustainable development in the area.
Eilean Aigas (NH4641) (Scottish Gaelic: Eilean Àigeis) [1] is an island in the River Beauly, Scotland, in Kiltarlity parish in traditional Inverness-shire, [2] now Highland Region. It is most notable for the mansion on it at its north end, [ 3 ] which was formerly owned by the Sobieski Stuarts and rented by author and Scottish nationalist ...