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On 1 May we added a further 28 properties covering 558,902 acres. All these properties include maps created with our new mapping and can be seen highlighted in read on the Search page.

We now have a further 44 properties covering a further 281,630 acres published in two new counties, Dumfries and Dunbarton. These properties also include the new mapping that we are using following the termination of our relationship with Ordnance Survey. Progress is slow in creating new mapping since I have very little spare time. However, we hope to have most of it prepared and published by the end of Summer 2007.

In January 2006, I reported adding 18 more properties covering 76,447 acres. This was the last update of data in 2006. In July 2006 I moved to Ethiopia where I plan to continue expanding the site but have been unable to do so in recent months due to various factors. I do hope to have data on Dumfries up within the next 6 weeks.

The most important news, however, concerns our relationship with the Ordnance Survey. It is now over and all the map images have had to be removed from the site. We have started constructing new map images from alternative mapping but it will be some time before the site is fully populated once more

These properties, together with every other on the site, are searchable using our map-based navigation system. You can now search for the land you are interested in by zooming in on an Ordnance Survey map. Click here [disabled due to Ordnance Survey dispute] to experience!

We now have a total 1406 landholdings covering 8,260,869 acres of private land published on the site. This represents 51% of all privately-owned rural land in Scotland.

Our target is to document the ownership of 75% all privately-owned rural land in Scotland together with the larger publicly-owned properties. We will not be documenting Forestry Commission land as each holding would add considerably to the workload and because the boundaries of FC land are already shown on Ordnance Survey maps.

COUNTY	No. HOLDINGS	PRIVATE ACRES DOCUMENTED	FC ACRES	TOTAL ACRES ACCOUNTED FOR	% of COUNTY
Aberdeen	49	416,752	59,135	475,887	37.7%
Angus	17	191,074	10,122	201,196	36%
Argyll	352	1,347,755	415,045	1,762,800	88.6%
Banff	5	172,885	19,977	192,862	47.8%
Bute	24	97,844	27,170	125,014	89.5%
Caithness	94	281,210	18,912	300,122	68.4%
Dumfries	22	243,111	55,938	262,466	43.5%
Dunbarton	24	75,102	5327	80,429	52.1%
East Lothian	150	117,456	0	117,456	68.7%
Inverness (mainland)	266	1,763,866	316,887	2,080,753	77.2%
Kincardine	28	72,045	24,506	96,551	39.5%
Moray	2	40,580	29,567	70,147	23%
Nairn	52	93,477 acres	3,463	96,940	93%
Perth	49	718,198	150,726	868,924	54.4%
Ross & Cromarty	146	1,424,997	98,825	1,406,700	77.1%
Sutherland	123	1,196,509 acres	57,004	1,253,513	96.6%

Our Further Information section provides a range of information on landownership in Scotland, land for sale, links and recommendations for further reading.