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UPDATE 28 March 2025 – the Clan Donald Estate is now being advertised at offers over £6,750,000. A sales brochure can be downloaded here (2.9Mb pdf). The Stage One debate on the Land Reform (Scotland) Bill took place on Wednesday
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The Melville Monument in St Andrew Square in Edinburgh stands 152 foot-high and with a statue on top of Henry Dundas, 1st Viscount Melville. (1) The monument was constructed between 1821 and 1823 and the statue was added in 1827.
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Pictured – Kinloch Castle I am just back from four days on the Isle of Rùm. There have been four phases in the history of Rùm. The first and longest was the pre-clearance period stretching from pre-history up until 1826
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Today marks an important moment in the struggle to reclaim rights for the people over common land. In May 2005, I discovered an extant commonty in the Parish of Carluke (pictured red above). Commonties are ancient areas of common land,
Continue readingImage: Badinloskin, Sutherland This is the Keynote Address by Professor James Hunter given to the Community Land Scotland Annual Conference, New Drumossie Hotel, Inverness, 21 May 2015. James Hunter In September 2009, the best part of six years ago, I was opening
Continue reading“I’m deeply dismayed that this issue has been re-opened again. I can understand that there are always going to be some people who object to large-scale landownership but we felt that that was dealt with at the time of the
Continue readingToday’s light relief from Groundskeeper Willie from the Simpsons.
Continue readingImage Credit: Amelia Troubridge Today’s light relief comes courtesy of Tatler which published a feature on the views of scotland’s aristocrats on the prospects of Scottish independence. The article was published in July but only went online yesterday and features
Continue readingToday’s referendum light relief is this a musical celebration of Scottish independence at the Òran Mór (gaelic for ‘great melody of life’ or ‘big song’) organised by Bella Caledonia. This is for all who came on the night and those
Continue readingThe socio-ecological NGO, Reforesting Scotland launched a campaign in May 2011 to promote the protection and expansion of hutting in Scotland. The Thousand Huts campaign has achieved a considerable amount in a short space of time. Last week the new Scottish
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