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 July 2011 the website contains:

1837 landholdings covering 9,530,107 acres

which, when added to 1,403,694 acres of Forestry Commission land in counties on the website

means that we have accounted for 57.3% of Scotland

or means that we have accounted for 57.8% of privately-owned rural land in Scotland

broken down as follows:

county no. holdings private holdings acres FC acres Other Public total acres % of county/country
Aberdeen 73 524,328 57,667 0 581,995 37.6
Angus 17 190,511 10,122 0 200,633 35.9
Argyll 352 1,347,017 372,119 0 1,719,136 86.4
Banff 4 121,390 19,977 51,495 192,862 47.9
Bute 24 97,844 27,170 0 125,014 89.5
Caithness 94 28,1210 18,912 0 300,122 68.4
Dumbarton 22 63,223 5,327 11,852 80,402 52.1
Dumfries 21 228,723 58,802 0 303,355 44.1
Dumbarton 24 75,102 5,327 80,429 52.1
East Lothian 143 111,324 0 100 111,424 65.1
Inverness 263 1,770,520 242,550 0 2,013,070 74.7
Kincardine 28 72,425 24,506 0 96,931 39.7
Kirkcudbright 34 88,266 146,506 0 234,772 40.9
Lanark 70 167,033 6660 0 173,693 30.2
Moray 22 131,328 29,567 0 160,895 52.8
Nairn 52 93,959 3,463 0 97,422 93.4
Peebles 35 109,194 15,716 5,790 130,700 58.8
Perth 147 958,937 120,312 30,569 1,109,818 69.5
Ross & Cromarty 145 1,421,340 119,492 0 1,540,832 77.9
Roxburgh 80 205,953 37,537 0 243,490 57.2
Selkirk 60 141,321 7,910 1,737 150,968 88.2
Sutherland 124 1,164,300 57,004 42,176 1,263,480 97.4
Wigtown 13 80,412 22,375 0 102,787 32.9
1,823 9,370,558 1,403,694 159,549 10,933,801 57.3