Links of Interest

There are a wide range of websites containing useful information relating to landownership in Scotland. A small selection is included here. The list will be added to on a regular basis.

ENVIRONMENT AND CONSERVATION

Eilean Ban Trust

Hebridean Trust

John Muir Trust

National Trust for Scotland

Royal Society for the Protection of Birds

Scottish Wildlife Trust

Woodland Trust

ESTATES AND LANDOWNERS' SITES

OFFICIAL INFORMATION

The Registers of Scotland is the official source of information on title to land in Scotland. It holds two Registers, the Register of Sasines and the Land Register.

Companies House allows you to search for details of companies which own land in Scotland.

Highland Council maintain a digital map databse of landownership in the Highland Council area. Contact Jon Shepherd, Highland Council Map Manager for further details.

The Ordnance Survey, the UK's national mapping agency.

SCOTLIS is a pilot project aiming to integrate various official sources of information about land.

INTERNATIONAL LAND INFORMATION

National Land Survey and Cadastre of Denmark

The National Land Survey of Finland

Land Information New Zealand

Information Services Corporation of Saskatchewan (Canada)

National Land Survey of Sweden

International Association for the Study of Common Property (IASCP)

IRREVERENT AND HUMOUR

An entertaining take on the sale of the Cuillin.

LAND AGENTS

LAND REFORM

The Scottish Executive have a website dedicated to documenting the progress of land reform legislation.

Alastair McIntosh - home page of the social activist, academic and land reform campaigner

Andy Wightman - home page of the author of this site and land reform activist

Land Reform Act - a new (Dec 2004) site providing the citizen with independent analysis and information on Part 2 of the Land Reform (Scotland) Act 2003.

Labour Land Campaign - have been working tirelessly on land as a political issue for many years.

NON-GOVERNMENTAL SITES

The Country Land and Business Association represents landowners in England & Wales

The Caledonia Centre for Social Development Land Programme contains papers and analysis on land reform.

The European Landowners' Organisation represents landowning organisations throughout Europe and contains links to national landowning organisations.

Landownership Surveys is a private business based in Perthshire run by Nicholas Hamilton Fletcher. He carries out surveys on behalf of landowners who wish to find out what land they own

The Scottish Crofters' Union represents crofting interests in Scotland.

The Scottish Landowners' Federation is the main organisation representing landowning interests in Scotland.

OTHER

Burke's Landed Gentry

N55 - a Danish arts collective exploring the idea of land

Scots Law Online - a useful resource for all matters legal

Cairngorm Bothy Network - a discussion board about Cairngorms bothies.

A fantastic bed and breakfast on the Isle of Skye (my parents!)

Woodland Orchestra - a creative force in music!

SOCIAL AND COMMUNITY LANDOWNERSHIP

Assynt Crofters' Trust in Sutherland.

Borve and Annishader , Isle of Skye.