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Bastle houses (5 P) C. Country estates in Scotland (1 C, 6 P) ... Pages in category "Rural Scotland" The following 24 pages are in this category, out of 24 total.
This category attempts to list all country houses, stately homes, manors, country retreats and estates, mansions and houses in Scotland; anything of historical architectural note which was used as a residence by a noble family or persons of esteem in history.
Country houses in Angus, Scotland (7 P) Country houses in Argyll and Bute (18 P) B. Country houses in the Scottish Borders (28 P) C. Country houses in ...
The corporation is one of the largest property managers in Scotland, managing assets worth £568.2 million as of 2022. [2] These include over 35,565 hectares (87,880 acres) of land in rural Scotland, the majority of which is let for farming, residential, commercial, sporting and mineral operations.
Linlithgow Palace, the first building to bear that title in Scotland, extensively rebuilt along Renaissance principles from the fifteenth century.. The origins of private estate houses in Scotland are in the extensive building and rebuilding of royal palaces that probably began under James III (r. 1460–88), accelerated under James IV (r. 1488–1513), and reached its peak under James V (r ...
After the First World War, the government responded to urban deprivation with a massive programme of council house building. Many were on greenfield sites of semi-detached homes or terraced cottages. In the 1930s, schemes tended to be more cheaply built, but a survey of 1936 found that almost half of Scotland's houses were still inadequate.
The geography of Scotland is highly varied, from rural lowlands to barren uplands, and from large cities to uninhabited islands. Aside from the mainland, Scotland is surrounded by 790 islands encompassing the major archipelagoes of the Shetland Islands , Orkney Islands and the Outer Hebrides .
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