Caithness and Sutherland Travel Guide — Things to Do, Food & Hotels
Parliamentary constituency in the United Kingdom, 1918-1997
About Caithness and Sutherland
This region is bleak and very thinly populated, but it wasn't always so. The central Scottish Highlands became anglicised during the 18th century, with the adoption of new farming methods and land tenure, and English replacing Gaelic. This led to depopulation, but it was gradual and more driven by the "pull" of growing economies like Glasgow and America than the "push" of uncaring landowners. The northern Highlands and Hebrides shared those trends but lagged behind. They caught up suddenly and painfully in the 19th century, when landowners brusquely evicted their farm tenants to convert the land to sheep-grazing and deer-stalking. And this happened in an era that was developing concepts of civil rights and resistance (emboldened by Irish examples), photography and pesky reporters. So these
Caithness and Sutherland Travel Guide Sections
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