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" ...

ロモグラファー:
vicuna
アップロード日:
2016-08-15
タグ:
cliffs clouds coast fern heath highlands landscape nature ruins scotland sea sky travel trip wall
カメラ:
Hasselblad XPan
フィルム:
Lomo CN400
レンズ:
hasselblad f/4 45 mm
都市:
Badbea
国 / 地域:
United Kingdom
アルバム:
Clearances - Scotland #1 [XPan]
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