a Scottish landscape
 

Progress

Our aim is to cover 75% of the privately-owned rural land in Scotland.

Of the 18 483 004 acres of rural land, 2 275 768 acres are in the ownership of public bodies and 16 207 236 acres are in the ownership of private bodies.

The survey is designed to eventually capture 75% of privately-owned rural land and thus the target acreage is 12,155 ,427 acres. I estimate that this will comprise all landholdings above a threshold of around 400 acres.

In order to do this I plan to expand the site county by county including initially only the largest properties (those over around 500 acres). One this is done, it will become clearer how much is left to do and the gaps can be filled in by progressively lowering the property acreage threshold until we have achieved the 75% target.

Current Coverage

As of February 2010, the website contains:

1540 landholdings covering 8,605,816 acres

which, when added to 1,219,1781 acres of Forestry Commission land in counties on the website

means that we have accounted for 51.5% of Scotland

or means that we have accounted for 53.1% of privately-owned rural land in Scotland

broken down as follows:

county no. holdings private holdings FC acres total acres % of county
Aberdeen 49 416,752 57,667 474,419 37.6
Angus 17 190,511 10,122 200,633 35.9
Argyll 352 1,347,017 372,119 1,719,136 86.4
Banff 5 172,885 19,977 192,862 47.9
Bute 24 97,844 27,170 125,014 89.5
Caithness 94 28,1210 18,912 300,122 68.4
Dumfries 23 244,553 58,802 303,355 44.1
Dumbarton 24 75,102 5,327 80,429 52.1
East Lothian 144 111,424 0 111,424 65.1
Inverness 263 1,764,653 249,291 2,013,944 74.7
Kincardine 28 72,425 24,506 96,931 39.7
Moray 2 40,580 29,567 70,147 23.0
Nairn 52 93,959 3,463 97,422 93.4
Perth 50 719,839 120,312 840,151 52.6
Ross & Cromarty 145 1,421,340 119,492 1,540,832 77.9
Roxburgh 80 207,542 37,537 245,079 57.6
Selkirkh 61 143,065 7,910 150,975 88.2
Sutherland 127 1,205,115 57,004 1,262,119 97.3
Scotland 1,540 8,605,816 1,219,178 9,824,994 51.5