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A croft is a traditional Scottish term for a fenced or enclosed area of land, usually small and arable, and usually, but not always, with a crofter's dwelling thereon. A crofter is one who has tenure and use of the land, typically as a tenant farmer , especially in rural areas.
A contemporary estimate was that a crofter needed to carry out 200 days of work away from his croft in order to avoid destitution. In the second half of the 19th century, many crofters provided a substantial migrant workforce, especially for lowland farms. Modern stack of drying pattern-laid machine-cut peat turfs in Ness, the Outer Hebrides ...
Breacleit (or Roulanish; [1] Scottish Gaelic: Breacleit; Old Norse: Breiðiklettr) is the central village on Great Bernera in the Outer Hebrides, Scotland. Breaclete is within the parish of Uig. [2] Although the village name comes from a geographical feature rather than a steading it is generally believed to be an ancient settlement.
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The parish originally belonged to the county of Ross and Cromarty. The parish council was formed in 1895 with 11 elected members. [6] This was replaced by Lewis District Council in 1930, which had 19 members, 9 of whom were the County Councillors for Lewis and 10 elected to the District Council from the four parishes. Lochs had 4 members.
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