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  2. Highland Clearances - Wikipedia

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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 ...

  3. List of clearance settlements in Scotland - Wikipedia

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    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]

  4. Highlands (TV series) - Wikipedia

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    Highlands is a 6-part documentary series produced by STV Studios (then known as "SMG Productions") and broadcast on STV in Northern and Central Scotland and The History Channel (UK), presented by Taggart actor John Michie.

  5. Category:Highland Clearances - Wikipedia

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    Pages in category "Highland Clearances" The following 27 pages are in this category, out of 27 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...

  6. Crofting - Wikipedia

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    Crofting communities were a product of the Highland Clearances (though individual crofts had existed before the clearances). Previously, Highland agriculture was based on farms or bailtean, which had common grazing and arable open fields operated on the run rig system. An individual baile might have between five and ten families as tenants.

  7. Badbea - Wikipedia

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    Badbea (pronounced bad-bay) [1] is a former clearance village perched on the steep slopes above the cliff tops of Berriedale on the east coast of Caithness, Scotland.Situated around 5 miles (8 km) north of Helmsdale, the village was settled in the 18th and 19th centuries by families evicted from their homes when the straths of Langwell, Ousdale and Berriedale were cleared for the establishment ...

  8. Bernera Riot - Wikipedia

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    The Bernera Riot occurred in 1874, on the island of Great Bernera, in Scotland in response to the Highland Clearances.The use of the term 'Bernera Riot' correctly relates to the court case which exposed the maltreatment of the peasant classes in the Highlands and Islands of Scotland and exposed the corruption that was inherent in the landowning class.

  9. Clan Robertson - Wikipedia

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    Two of the most notorious and well documented Highland Clearances occurred on the Robertson clan land of Strathcarron: [15] In 1845, the Glencalvie or Croick clearance, executed by the factor James Gillander on behalf of William Robertson, sixth laird of Kindeace. In 1854, the Greenyards clearance, sometimes known as the Massacre of the Rosses.

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