The Great Glen and Strathspey Travel Guide — Things to Do, Food & Hotels
valley of River Spey in Moray and Highland, Scotland, UK
About The Great Glen and Strathspey
This part of the Highlands was "Sassenachised" at an early date, with the adoption of lowland farming methods and land tenure, and English replacing Gaelic. The process was well under way before the 1745 rebellion, and although it led to de-population, this was more driven by the "pull" of growing economies like Glasgow and America than the "push" of uncaring landowners. And those that were forced out were evicted in an era before civil rights, photography and pesky reporters, so their stories went largely untold. It would be a different matter a century later when similar processes scourged the northern and western Highlands and the Hebrides, so it's those stories of "The Clearances" that we remember. But in 1822 the vast bulk of King George IV was somehow levered into a kilt, the loyal c
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