In Scotland (Scottish Gaelic: Alba) is a country or nation and former independent kingdom of northwest Europe, and one of the four constituent parts of the United Kingdom. Scotland has a land boundary with England in the island of Great Britain and is otherwise bounded by seas and oceans. These boundaries... Scotland a croft is a small parcel of agricultural land that is occupied and farmed by a crofter who pays rent to the landlord who owns the land. The rent is fixed by law, and is minimal.

Crofts are situated in one of the counties of See Shetland (disambiguation) for other meanings. Shetland Islands The Shetland Islands (sometimes historically spelled Zetland, formerly Hjaltland) are one of 32 unitary council regions in Scotland and a Lieutenancy Area. It is a Scottish island group between the Orkney Islands and the Faroe Islands, north of mainland Scotland, with a... Shetland, The Orkney Islands form one of 32 unitary council regions in Scotland, and are a Lieutenancy Area. Orkney consists of about 200 small islands 16 kilometers north of Caithness in northern Scotland. The largest island in the group is known as The Mainland; about 20 are inhabited in total. Orkney... Orkney, Caithness is a traditional county in northeast Scotland. It has a land boundary with Sutherland. Otherwise it is bounded by sea. The land boundary follows a watershed which is crossed by just two highways and one railway. Across the Pentland Firth ferries link Caithness with Orkney, and Caithness has also... Caithness, This article is about the Scottish county of Sutherland. See also Sutherland, New South Wales for the Sydney suburb or Sutherland Shire for the Sydney local government area. Sutherland, South Africa is a town in the Northern Cape Province of South Africa. Sutherland was also a town in Saskatchewan, Canada... Sutherland, Categories: Stub | Traditional Counties of Scotland | History of Scotland ... Ross-shire, Inverness-shire is one of the traditional counties of Scotland. Its main town is Inverness, and it also includes Kingussie, Fort William and Mallaig. The county also coveres a number of islands - North Uist, South Uist and Harris from the Outer Hebrides, and Skye and the Small Isles of the... Inverness-shire and Argyll, sometimes called Argyllshire, is one of the traditional counties of Scotland. It covers the council area Argyll and Bute except for the Isle of Bute itself and the area to the south and west of Loch Lomond which is part of Dunbartonshire. In addition, Morvern, north of the Isle... Argyll in the north of Scotland, and held subject to the provisions of the Crofting Acts. The first crofting act was passed in 1886 is a common year starting on Friday (click on link to calendar) Events January 18 - Modern field hockey is born with the formation of The Hockey Association in England. January 29 - Karl Benz patents the first successful gasoline-driven automobile. March 17 - Carrollton Massacre: 20 African Americans are killed... 1886 to give security of For the area of Sheffield, in England, see Manor, Sheffield. Manorialism or Seigneurialism describes the organization of rural economy and society in medieval western and parts of central Europe, characterised by the vesting of legal and economic power in a lord supported economically from his own direct landholding and from... tenure to crofters, protecting them from further forced removal from the land (see the The Highland Clearances were part of a process of agricultural change throughout the United Kingdom, but the late timing, the abruptness of the change from the Clan System in the Scottish Highlands and the brutality of many of the evictions gave the Highland Clearances particular notoriety. The Enclosures depopulated rural... Highland Clearances). The legislation that covers crofting was consolidated into the Crofters (Scotland) Act 1993. Crofting is regulated by the Crofters Commission, based in This article is about the city of Inverness in Scotland. For other places of the same name, see Inverness (disambiguation). Inverness is the only city in the Scottish Highlands. It lies at the mouth of the River Ness as it flows into the Moray Firth in north-east Scotland. It... Inverness.

Since 1976 is a leap year starting on Thursday (link will take you to calendar). Events January-February January 12 - UN Security Council votes 11-1 to admit the Palestinian Liberation Organization January 15 - Would-be Gerald Ford presidential assassin Sara Jane Moore is sentenced to life in prison January 16... 1976 it has been legally possible for a crofter to acquire title to his croft, thus becoming an owner-occupier.

External links

• Scottish Crofting Foundation (http://www.croftingfoundation.co.uk/home.shtml)
• Crofters Comission (http://www.crofterscommission.org.uk/a_today.htm)