Badbea old village

The Highland clearances was a forced displacement of population during the 18th and 19th century. Landlords cleared their land from their tenants to practice extensive sheep raising and evicted sometimes brutally the whole population from the place they lived on. They had then to find a new place to live, finding refuge on the most difficult lands of the highlands, along the cliffs, where only heath and ferns can grow. Today, there are still remains of these "clearances villages" ...

Photographer:
vicuna
Uploaded:
2016-08-15
Tags:
cliffs coast fern heath highlands landscape nature ruins scotland sea travel trip wall
Camera:
Hasselblad XPan
Film:
Lomo CN400
Lens:
hasselblad f/4 45 mm
City:
Badbea
Country/region:
United Kingdom
Albums:
Clearances - Scotland #1 [XPan]

4 Comments

  1. blikka
    blikka ·

    Fantastic album. Reminds me of the trip a took last year through the highlands. The greens, the space, the sea, the wild flowers... the midges... haha. Nah, just kidding it's an amazing place.

  2. vicuna
    vicuna ·

    @blikka thanks! Yeah, fantastic country and amazing landscape... and I'm just at the beginning of the processing and scanning from all my films, so a lot more to come! :)

  3. blikka
    blikka ·

    i'll be watching! :)

  4. vicuna
    vicuna ·

    @blikka ;)

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