How To Use Crofter In A Sentence
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The local landowners and crofters have countered with an alternative proposal for a Wester Ross Wilderness Area.
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Anecdotal evidence has long pointed to crofters being a hale and hearty breed - albeit prone to bad backs and the odd grumble.
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Farmers and crofters can apply for annual payments for up to ten years for adopting environmentally friendly farming practices.
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Dad is a crofter and a raddled drunk, who has an accident with a sheep that puts him in bed for a few days.
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And that was the oddest thing of all - nobody could recall having encountered a group of better-dressed farmers and crofters in their long lifetimes.
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If farmers' sons did not marry within their own class, they were most likely to marry the daughter of a crofter or farm worker.
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In 1968 the Crofters Commission proposed that crofters be given full rights to the ownership of their crofts.
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Twenty crofters who share common grazing can meet regularly to decide how many beasts each can graze on the common.
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The Act gave communities of crofters and tenants the right to bid for an estate, backed by public funds, when it was put up for sale.
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These crofter-fish harvesters were skilled at and knowledgeable about fishing for such purposes.
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Crofters gained the right to buy croft lands and common grazings even if their landlord did not want to sell.
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Their son would grow up on this craggy outcrop they called home and become an experienced fowler, cragsman and crofter.
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In the box was half a dozen books on German philosophy (in German), twenty books on artificial intelligence and "whither" computers, and another fifty books or so with such arcane titles as Scottish Crofters: A Historical Ethnography of a Celtic Village.
Daniel Krotz: Third Wave Feminism
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But the six windmills for the chop were mostly on crofters' common grazing, which would have lost each 1000 a year rent.
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Like the rest of the Highlands and Islands, Skye suffered during the mid-19th century from the Clearances, when unscrupulous lairds forced crofters out of their homes and off the land to make way for sheep.
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Ken came from a family of crofters and was the first in his family to go to university.
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In the case of a crofting community, for instance, all salmon fishing that borders the in-bye and grazing land can be bought by the crofters in an enforced sale.
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I worked with farmers and crofters and did all types of work to get a bite to eat and a few cigarettes.
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Crofting today is very much a part-time occupation and crofters still work in traditional areas such as fishing, as well as more modern ones, such as tourism.
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He was officially inaugurated as Lancashire county chairman at the NFU's county luncheon which took place at the Crofters Hotel in Garstang last Tuesday.
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For the last seven years, Scottish Natural Heritage has paid out around £400,000 each winter to about 100 farmers and crofters in recognition of the damage the geese cause.
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The answer is a categorical no, except in crofting areas, where a few crofters may be a little better off.
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This interpretation of crofting law would enable crofters to become their own landlords but continue to enjoy the advantages of remaining tenants.
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Furthermore, the crofters on both crown and private land also lacked incentives, as they were not given an opportunity to redeem the crofts and related cultivated land for themselves.
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In season, you can buy the exquisite little new potatoes that the crofters grow in the island's sandy soil.
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More than 180 crofters, some living thousands of miles from their crofts, were forced to give up their land last year to make way for new tenants.
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This interpretation of crofting law would enable crofters to become their own landlords but continue to enjoy the advantages of remaining tenants.
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He knew all about the sale of lands that forced small crofters off the lands their families had tended for hundreds of years, all about the dreadful conditions of penury and starvation in the cities, the simple insupportableness of life in Scotland in these days.
Drums of Autumn
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I have friends and acquaintances who are farmers and crofters, many of whom, in upland areas, depend on sheep and lambs for their livelihood.
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Furthermore, the crofters on both crown and private land also lacked incentives, as they were not given an opportunity to redeem the crofts and related cultivated land for themselves.
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The majority of protagonists in the drama were tenant crofters who had farmed the land for countless generations, with only a tiny smattering of incomers.
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This award-winning candlelit restaurant housed in a crofter's cottage looks out over the sea and towards the Outer Hebrides.
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Landowners with estates on which crofters or tenant farmers live are facing a different economic climate since the land reform legislation was passed.
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A crofter, however, by definition, is a tenant on the croft.
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Landowners with estates on which crofters or tenant farmers live are facing a different economic climate since the land reform legislation was passed.
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I worked with farmers and crofters and did all types of work to get a bite to eat and a few cigarettes.
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I will admit to being no expert on that tortuous legislation on land tenure, but apparently, by allowing crofters to reassign their holdings to outsiders, crofts could ultimately be sold on to, well, anybody.
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He switched on the television set and watched the news and then a programme in Gaelic, inevitably about the history of the Highland Clearances, when the crofters were driven off their land.
Death of a Charming Man
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Being part of a community is one of the biggest attractions for new crofters.
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We'd get a bit of parritch now and then from a crofter's cottage, but those folk are so poor themselves there's seldom anything to spare.
Sick Cycle Carousel
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I have friends and acquaintances who are farmers and crofters, many of whom, in upland areas, depend on sheep and lambs for their livelihood.
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Originally the yarn for the cloth was hand-spun from wool by the crofters of Lewis and was wholly produced in the Isle.
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A mental construct arising from a misapprehension of the relationship between the crofter and his land.
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There are many farmers, crofters etc, who would be only too willing to sell their land at £6,000 an acre to rid themselves of the unrewarding drudgery of much current farming in Scotland.
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The latest developments in the intricate history of crofting concern the possibility of ownership by the crofters themselves.
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It also established the first Crofters Commission as a permanent body empowered to fix fair rents and administer crofting legislation.
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Hebridean crofters and near-bankrupt tenant farmers aching for someone to represent their views must hold their heads in their hands at such miserable displays.
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He points out that crofting was a system devised by landlords themselves, and that up until 1820 it was almost a matter of pride as well as commercial sense to keep as many of crofters on the land as possible.
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There are many farmers, crofters etc, who would be only to willing to sell their land at £6,000 an acre to rid themselves of the unrewarding drudgery of much current farming in Scotland.
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It not only gives you very beautiful pictures of Shetland but it gets down to the life of the crofters and fishermen, and brings the naturalness of it.
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The footpath is to allow disabled access from the bottom of Crofters Lea down the old railway embankment to Milner's Road.
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Then the crofters would stew the slugs with oatmeal in a porridge.
Times, Sunday Times
