Derlict Croft House
A brutal legacy of the late 18th and early 19th centuries is still etched in the minds of the people of the Highlands today. During what became known as the ''Highland Clearances'', tens of thousands of men, women and children were evicted, often violently, from their homes to make way for large scale sheep farming. In some areas, whole glens were cleared, which today are as silent as they must have been when the landlord's factors had finished ruthlessly carrying out the orders of their masters. Homes were burnt and tenants forced to leave at the point of a sword or musket, carrying little or nothing as they headed towards a life of poverty and hunger
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Keywords: abandoned, dava, dwelling, eviction, families, forced, highlands, home, house, moor, moray, morayshire, removed, roofless, ruin, scotland, scottish, seafield, tenants
