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Estate: Stòras Uibhist: £4,500,000 38,000 93,900: 12] Langamull and West Ardhu Woodlands, Isle Of Mull Dec 2006: Forest: North West Mull Community Woodland Company Ltd: £343,000 700 1,700 Purchased from Forestry Commission Scotland under the National Forest Land Scheme [13] Galson Estate, Lewis: Jan 2007: Estate
Highland Estates — country estates in the Scottish Highlands region of the Highlands and Islands of Scotland. Pages in category "Highland Estates" The following 46 pages are in this category, out of 46 total.
The standard layout of a house throughout Scotland before agricultural improvement was a byre-dwelling or longhouse or blackhouse with humans and livestock sharing a common roof, often separated by only a partition wall, leading to the byre (barn) [32] Contemporaries noted that cottages in the Highlands and Islands tended to be cruder, with ...
The Highland Clearances (Scottish Gaelic: Fuadaichean nan Gàidheal [ˈfuət̪ɪçən nəŋ ˈɡɛː.əl̪ˠ], the "eviction of the Gaels") were the evictions of a significant number of tenants in the Scottish Highlands and Islands, mostly in two phases from 1750 to 1860.
Highlands and Islands of Scotland — 1 of the 2 main Scottish regional subdivisions, along with the Scottish Lowlands; Subcategories. This category has the following ...
Highlands and Islands is an electoral region of the Scottish Parliament. In the 2007 election, this region was the last to declare its regional votes, which were the decisive results in determining that the Scottish National Party overtook Scottish Labour to obtain the largest representation in the Scottish Parliament by one seat.
The Highlands (Scots: the Hielands; Scottish Gaelic: a' Ghàidhealtachd [ə ˈɣɛːəl̪ˠt̪ʰəxk], lit. ' the place of the Gaels ') is a historical region of Scotland. [1] [failed verification] Culturally, the Highlands and the Lowlands diverged from the Late Middle Ages into the modern period, when Lowland Scots language replaced Scottish Gaelic throughout most of the Lowlands.
Linlithgow Palace, the first building to bear that title in Scotland, extensively rebuilt along Renaissance principles from the fifteenth century.. The origins of private estate houses in Scotland are in the extensive building and rebuilding of royal palaces that probably began under James III (r. 1460–88), accelerated under James IV (r. 1488–1513), and reached its peak under James V (r ...