Sentences with croft
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C c - ...a remote croft near Loch Nevis.
- Deer also cause damage to farms, crofts, forests and are a hazard on some of our roads.
- Restoration has featured all styles and periods - from crofts and castles to factories and country mansions - dating from medieval times to the 20th century.
- This wryly melancholic crofter is obviously attached to the island, rooted in the land he farms, but he has no romantic illusions.
- On the area of the croft land, there is also a further dilapidated farm building which could have the potential for residential conversion.
- Leek pottage was especially popular - but the crops used depended on what a peasant had grown in the croft around the side of his home.
- They moved to Skye with their children, fully intending to occupy a croft and work the land.
- He revolutionised farming in Scotland in the 18th century, by compiling his famous Statistical Account of Scotland - a detailed survey of every farm and croft in the land.
- As I neared her croft I began to look for her across the fields, or by the stream, for I knew she often worked there as well.
- Assisting crofts to go organic would boost Scotland's share of organically managed land.
- Here is the second cluster of huts, wattle fences enclosing neat crofts of fowl houses and kitchen-gardens blown with harvest.
- Any fisherman or crofter, any man or woman not yet severed from the old ethos, could say the same.
- Perhaps in the later Middle Ages, some crofts were combined into larger holdings, occasionally with barn or byre as well as a farmhouse.
- Moreover, the new legislation did little to make the crofts more viable, or to solve the problem of there being very few alternative sources of employment.
- Farmers live on crofts, a term that refers both to their land and their family home.
- One tier is land with crofts or tenants and the other land without, for which there is extra demand.
- Back lanes run along the rear of the crofts parallel with the main street, giving access to fields.
- We need people on the crofts and on tenant farms to keep our countryside alive rather than allowing it to revert to desert status.
- There are currently 33,000 people living on 17, 700 crofts in Scotland.
- I will admit to being no expert on that tortuous legislation on land tenure, but apparently, by allowing crofters to reassign their holdings to outsiders, crofts could ultimately be sold on to, well, anybody.
- There are 17,725 crofts and more than 33,000 people living in crofting households concentrated on the western seaboard of the Highland mainland, the Western Isles, Shetland, Skye and the Inner Hebrides.
- There is a hackneyed witticism about crofts being little pieces of land surrounded by regulations.
- Furthermore, the crofters on both crown and private land also lacked incentives, as they were not given an opportunity to redeem the crofts and related cultivated land for themselves.
- They were originally described as fishermen who had a croft, compared with the Orcadians who were farmers who kept a fishing boat.