Publisher's Synopsis
The ruins of deserted settlements are a poignant reminder of the changes in the Scottish rural landscape in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. This book presents a six-year study of the settlements depicted by the Ordnance Survey on the first edition of the 6-inch map of Scotland (1843-78). The research has added descriptions of over 25,000 of these deserted rural settlements to the RCAHMS archive and, for the first time, has mapped the extent of settlement desertion that occurred.
