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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]
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 ...
Pages in category "Highland Clearances" The following 27 pages are in this category, out of 27 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...
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 ...
Lowland Clearances; Highland Clearances This page was last edited on 18 January 2025, at 18:42 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution ...
The Lowland and Highland Clearances meant that many small settlements were dismantled, their occupants forced either to the new purpose-built villages built by the landowners such as John Cockburn's Ormiston or Archibald Grant's Monymusk [15] on the outskirts of the new ranch-style farms, or to the new industrial centres of Glasgow, Edinburgh ...
Rosal was a township in Strathnaver, Sutherland, in the Scottish Highlands that was deserted after its residents were evicted during the Highland Clearances of the early 19th century. Town [ edit ]
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 ...
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