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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.
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 ...
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 ...
Pages in category "Highland Clearances" The following 27 pages are in this category, out of 27 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...
Map of Skye showing Waternish Western shore of Loch Bay. Waternish or Vaternish (Scottish Gaelic: Bhàtairnis) [1] is a peninsula approximately 12 kilometres (7 + 1 ⁄ 2 miles) long on the island of Skye, Scotland, situated between Loch Dunvegan and Loch Snizort in the northwest of the island, [2] originally inhabited and owned by Clan MacNeacail/MacNicol/Nicolsons and originally consisting ...
West Uig was a district of 2,000 people around the 1841 census, but the Highland Clearances had set in by then and this parish suffered greatly. The villages of Capadale, Pennydonald, Balnicol, Balgreasich and Erista, around where the modern scattered crofting township of Ardroil now stands, were some of the many cleared to make way for sheep ...
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Crofting communities were a product of the Highland Clearances (though individual crofts had existed before the clearances). Previously, Highland agriculture was based on farms or bailtean, which had common grazing and arable open fields operated on the run rig system. An individual baile might have between five and ten families as tenants.