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First urban community right to buy in Edinburgh under the LR(S)A 2003 (as amended). Property sold by the Church of Scotland [22] Ulva: 21 June 2018: Island: North West Mull Community Woodland Company: £4,400,000+ 2,000 4,900: Sold by Jamie Howard after a grant of £4.4 million from the Scottish Government through the Scottish Land Fund [23]
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 Highlands and Islands region. Some Highland districts are not shown. The Highlands and Islands is an area of Scotland broadly covering the Scottish Highlands, plus Orkney, Shetland, and the Outer Hebrides (Western Isles). The Highlands and Islands are sometimes defined as the area to which the Crofters' Act of 1886 applied.
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.
News from the Highlands and Islands on BBC Sounds Highland is one of Scotland's most rural council areas and about half of its population live outside settlements of 3,000 people or more ...
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 ...
In the 1960s Raasay House and various other properties were purchased by John Green, a doctor residing in Sussex who visited the island only once and whose lack of interest in it earned him the sobriquet "Dr No". Having purchased the property for £8,000 he sold it to the Highlands and Islands Development Board in 1979 for £135,000. [3] [37 ...
The National Trust for Scotland has owned the 37 km 2 (14 sq mi) [58] West Affric Estate, [59] which covers the upper part of the glen, [57] since 1993. [60] As of 2019 the main private landowner is the North Affric Estate with 36 km 2 (14 sq mi) of land on the north side of Loch Affric centred on the baronial Affric Lodge.