Land raid
- "Land raiders" redirects here; for the 1969 film, see Land Raiders (film).
A land raid was a form of political protest in rural Scotland, primarily in the highlands.[1] Land raiders threatened to seize, or seized, land which they claimed had been unfairly taken from them or their forebears. Landowners, and the law, regarded the protests as a form of squatting.
Land raids were particularly common in the Hebrides, but some of the most prominent cases occurred on the mainland, for example in Wester Ross and in Sutherland.
Land raids
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- Cheesebay, North Uist
- Coll, 1919–21
- Coll, Lewis, 1888
- Drimore, South Uist
- Eoligarry, 1917–20
- Glenshiel deer forest, 1920
- Keose, Lewis
- Lairg, Sutherland
- Raasay
- Seven Men of Knoydart
- Vatersay[2]
- Waternish, Skye
See also
References
- ^ Robertson, Iain J.M. (2016). Landscapes of Protest in the Scottish Highlands After 1914: The Later Highland Land Wars. Routledge. ISBN 9781317108047.
- ^ Quinnell, Teàrlach. "The story of the Vatersay raiders". BBC. Retrieved 18 September 2017.
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