Troubled Chapters From a Highland History; Assynt Lands for Sale Again
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IT is a place which forms two key chapters in the history of Scottish land ownership. From the Highland Clearances in the nineteenth century to the land reform of the early twenty-first, Assynt is a powerful symbol.
Now 40,000 acres of deer forest containing Suilven, one of Scotland's most famous mountains, have been put on the market, and locals will have to decide if they want to buy it from one of Britain's richest families.See the full content of this document
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Troubled Chapters From a Highland History; Assynt Lands for Sale Again
The old Macleod lands of Assynt have been associated with the Vestey family since the 1930s.
In the early twentieth century the land had been owned by the infamous House of Sutherland which in 1913 sold the Assynt estate to a local man who made good in Can...See the full content of this document
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