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The definition of "clearance" (as it relates to the Highland Clearances) is debatable. The term was not in common use during much of the clearances; landowners, their factors and other estate staff tended, until the 1840s, to use the word "removal" to refer to the eviction of tenants. However, by 1843, "clearance" had become a general (and ...
This article is a list of any town, village, hamlet and settlements in Scotland, that were cleared during the 18th and 19th centuries as part of the Highland Clearances. The Clearances were a complex series of events occurring over more than a hundred years. [1]
In 1846, the Highland Potato Famine caused a crisis in the Highlands and the islands of Western Scotland, an area already struggling with overpopulation [2] [3] [4] and the upheavals of the Highland Clearances. The deaths from starvation were so high that, in 1848–1849, the government delivered shipments of oatmeal to locations along the ...
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He was described by architectural historian H. Gordon Slade [2] as a "model landlord" to tenants on his Aberdeenshire properties, [3] although he was responsible for several mass evictions of his Scottish Gaelic-speaking tenants in the Hebrides during what is now termed the Highland Clearances. [4]
Rosal consists of approximately 80 acres (32 ha), enclosed by a ring dyke on the east side the River Naver, across a bridge from Syre. [1] Written records of the settlement go back to 1269, [ 2 ] [ 3 ] but an iron age souterrain was found in the middle of the town, suggesting that it had been occupied for much longer.