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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. 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.

4. 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.

5. 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.

6. 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.

7. Patrick Sellar - Wikipedia

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   He was a major tenant of the Sutherland estate, and he continued an extensive correspondence with them over the details of his tenancy. Further clearances added to his property in 1819, but he was specifically forbidden to take any part in the clearance activity. [1]: 230-232 Sellar died in Elgin in 1851 and is buried in Elgin Cathedral.

8. Coffin ship - Wikipedia

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   A coffin ship (Irish: long cónra) is a popular idiom used to describe the ships that carried Irish migrants escaping the Great Irish Famine and Highlanders displaced by the Highland Clearances. [ 2 ]

9. 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 ...