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Introduction the Place-Names in This Book Were Collected As Part of The
Introduction The place-names in this book were collected as part of the Arts and Humanities Research Board-funded (AHRB) ‘Norse-Gaelic Frontier Project, which ran from autumn 2000 to summer 2001, the full details of which will be published as Crawford and Taylor (forthcoming). Its main aim was to explore the toponymy of the drainage basin of the River Beauly, especially Strathglass,1 with a view to establishing the nature and extent of Norse place-name survival along what had been a Norse-Gaelic frontier in the 11th century. While names of Norse origin formed the ultimate focus of the Project, much wider place-name collection and analysis had to be undertaken, since it is impossible to study one stratum of the toponymy of an area without studying the totality. The following list of approximately 500 names, mostly with full analysis and early forms, many of which were collected from unpublished documents, has been printed out from the Scottish Place-Name Database, for more details of which see Appendix below. It makes no claims to being comprehensive, but it is hoped that it will serve as the basis for a more complete place-name survey of an area which has hitherto received little serious attention from place-name scholars. Parishes The parishes covered are those of Kilmorack KLO, Kiltarlity & Convinth KCV, and Kirkhill KIH (approximately 240, 185 and 80 names respectively), all in the pre-1975 county of Inverness-shire. The boundaries of Kilmorack parish, in the medieval diocese of Ross, first referred to in the medieval record as Altyre, have changed relatively little over the centuries. -
Wolves and Humans in Glen Affric: Public Attitudes and Knowledge by Kevin Cummings
The Newsletter of The Wolves and Humans Foundation No. 29, Summer 2013 Wolves and Humans in Glen Affric: Public attitudes and knowledge by Kevin Cummings Glen Affric, Scotland Photo: R Morley Kevin Cummings is Conservation Officer at Glamis Apart from the ecological impact of such a Castle Estate in Angus, Scotland. Having reintroduction, there is also the question of how the previously worked as a volunteer at the Scottish local communities would react. Seeking an answer Deer Centre, he completed his MSc in is what took me 130 miles to the Glen Affric area Conservation and Management of Protected Areas of the Highlands, to a small village called Cannich. in January 2013, with a thesis on public attitudes I would call a dilapidated caravan there my home and knowledge about wolves in the Glen Affric for a spell during one of the wettest summers on area of the Scottish Highlands. Here Kevin record while I conducted the research for my outlines some of the main findings of his research Master of Science degree in Conservation and and recounts his experiences carrying out Management at Edinburgh Napier University. interviews with local people. It is widely accepted that when the subject of he reintroduction of large predators to an reintroducing a predator to an area is raised, area where they have become extirpated is livestock farmers and hunting estate owners tend to Ta very complex issue. The Highlands of have a negative opinion towards it. I decided I Scotland is an area where the possibility of would try and discover how those not directly reintroducing a predator such as wolf or lynx has involved in farming and hunting feel a wolf been tentatively raised from time to time. -
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Contents Where are the Highlands? Where are the islands? Things to do Make an itinerary How to get there Choosing accommodation Food and drink Discounts and saving money Safety tips Where are the Highlands? The Highlands is the area north and west of the Highland Boundary Fault (from Arran and Helensburgh on the west coast stretching across to Stonehaven in the east). It is the uppermost part of Scotland (made up of six smaller regions) and home to famous attractions such as Ben Nevis and Loch Ness, towns (notably Fort William, Nairn and Aviemore) and the “City of the Highlands” - Inverness. Traditionally visitors wishing to experience the beautiful Scottish outdoors will travel to the Highlands to visit the scenic lochs, tall snow capped, mountains, vast glens, ancient monuments as well as the beaches and bays along North Scotland’s iconic coastline. Seals, puffins, whales and dolphins are often spotted on these shores. You may want to try to catch a glimpse of the infamous Aurora Borealis (the Northern Lights), walk amongst the The Highlands varied wildlife and flora or appreciate the breath-taking Scottish landscapes as part of your Highland experience. Or visit historic towns and villages for sightseeing, fine and traditional dining, shopping and a taste of Highland life. (Lowlands) For general information about the history of the Highlands see here! Where are the islands? You can reach the islands as part of your Highlands visit by ferry or air from the mainland. The island groups are: The Shetland The Orkney Islands Islands The -
Forestry Commision Glen Affric Guide
(Seasonal) River Affric Plodda Falls Am Meallan Viewpoint Trail Contact 1 Forestry Commission Scotland Plodda Falls Trail Explore The Forest walks of Inverness, Ross & Skye Forest District, 0.5 km/0.3 mile. Allow 20 mins. 0.6 km/0.4 mile. Allow 20 mins. Enjoy Tower Road, Smithton, Inverness, IV2 7NL A short climb for a classic view up the A short loop situated on a gentle hillside. and Tel: 01463 791575 glen to the mountains beyond Follow us on: E-mail: invernessross&[email protected] Discover The first tumbling torrents you Glen Affric Web: www.forestry.gov.uk/scotland River Affric Trail come to are a magnificent National Nature Reserve Public enquiry line 0845 FORESTS (367 3787) Take care of your pinewoods! 1.6 km/1 mile. Allow 50 mins. taster for what’s to come! Take When you camp; gas stoves are better, quicker and safer care on the rising path as you For than fires. If you must light a fire, make sure it’s properly Take care on the rocky sections alongside information sited; put it out when you leave. the river, which can be slippery when wet. pass the rocks covered in on what’s mosses and ferns. available If you’re walking in the hills, take a map, compass, protective clothing and food. There is no mobile phone Stand on the rock, which resembles a whale’s back, from Forestry The glory of the Plodda Falls reception in the glen. as the peaty waters surge into the loch. Watch for Commission will amaze you as the burn dippers searching for larvae below the foaming waters. -
Scots Pine Forest
Teacher information 1: The Scots Pine Forest What are native Caledonian pine forests? Native Caledonian pine forest contain Scots pine and a range of other trees, including junipers, birches, willows, and rowan and, in some areas, aspens. Many of the oldest trees in Scotland are found in native pinewoods. As the largest and longest lived tree in the Caledonian forest the Scots pine is a keystone species in the ecosystem, forming the backbone of which many other species depend. Scots pine trees over 200 years old are known as 'grannies', but they are young compared to one veteran pine in a remote part of Glen Loyne that was found to be over 550 years old. Native Caledonian pinewoods are more than just trees. They are home to a wide range of species that are found in similar habitat in Scandinavia and other parts of northern Europe and Russia. Despite this wide distribution, the Scots pine forests in Scotland are unique and distinct from those elsewhere because of the absence of any other native conifers. Native pinewoods have also provided a wide range of products that were used in everyday life in rural Scotland. Timber was used to build houses; berries, fungi and animals living in the pinewood provided food; and fir-candles were cut from the heart of old trees to provide early lighting. More recently, native pinewoods provided timber during the First and Second World Wars when imports to Britain were interrupted. How much native Caledonian pinewood is there in Britain? After the last Ice Age, Scotland’s ‘rainforest’ covered thousands of square kilometres in the Scottish Highlands. -
2016 BSBI Scottish Newsletter
BSBI SCOTTISH NEWSLETTER Number 38 Spring 2016 CONTENTS page 2 Editor’s note 3 BSBI/BSS Scottish Annual Meeting 2015 Jane MacKintosh 5 Aliens in the British Flora Ken Thompson 7 Scottish Officer Report for 2015-16 Jim McIntosh 11 Crab Apples and Wild Plums Michael Braithwaite 12 Patterns of Flora Stephen Bungard 14 Look what’s come to roost in our tattie patch! George Ballantyne 15 Epipactis phyllanthes new to Scotland Ian Green 15 Atlas 2020: using hectad percentage scores Angus Hannah 16 Exhibit abstracts, Scottish Annual Meeting 2015 29 Annual Reports from Vice-county Recorders Forthcoming events 52 Plantlife Scotland events, 2016 54 BPS (Fern Society) Scottish meetings programme, 2016 55 Scottish Annual Meeting, 2016 55 BSBI Photographic Competition 56 Scottish field-meetings programme 2016 Editor’s note Angus Hannah Following the death in May last year of Peter Macpherson, who founded the Scottish Newsletter and edited it for 37 years, the Scottish Committee agreed that it would be right for it to continue, but not necessarily in its pre- sent form. It was decided that the existing format would be retained for this year, and would include a questionnaire to gauge the views of the reader- ship on the preferred future format. I agreed to take on the editorship, at least provisionally, on this basis. We are very grateful to Jackie Muscott for agreeing to continue organising the distribution, an onerous task for which thanks are well deserved. Please tell us which of the following options you would favour, bearing in mind the drawbacks as well as the advantages of each. -
Nennius' Historia Brittonum
Nennius’ ‘Historia Brittonum’ Translated by Rev. W. Gunn & J. A. Giles For convenience, this text has been assembled and composed into this PDF document by Camelot On-line. Please visit us on-line at: http://www.heroofcamelot.com/ The Historia Brittonum Table of Contents Acknowledgements....................................................................................................................................4 Preface........................................................................................................................................................5 I. THE PROLOGUE..................................................................................................................................6 1.............................................................................................................................................................6 2.............................................................................................................................................................7 II. THE APOLOGY OF NENNIUS...........................................................................................................7 3.............................................................................................................................................................7 III. THE HISTORY ...................................................................................................................................8 4,5..........................................................................................................................................................8 -
STANDARD DATA FORM for Sites Within the ‘UK National Site Network of European Sites’
STANDARD DATA FORM for sites within the ‘UK national site network of European sites’ Special Protection Areas (SPAs) are classified and Special Areas of Conservation (SACs) are designated under: • the Conservation of Habitats and Species Regulations 2017 (as amended) in England and Wales (including the adjacent territorial sea) and to a limited extent in Scotland (reserved matters) and Northern Ireland (excepted matters); • the Conservation (Natural Habitats &c.) Regulations 1994 (as amended) in Scotland; • the Conservation (Natural Habitats, &c) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1995 (as amended) in Northern Ireland; and • the Conservation of Offshore Marine Habitats and Species Regulations 2017 (as amended) in the UK offshore area. Each SAC or SPA (forming part of the UK national site network of European sites) has its own Standard Data Form containing site-specific information. The information provided here generally follows the same documenting format for SACs and SPAs, as set out in the Official Journal of the European Union recording the Commission Implementing Decision of 11 July 2011 (2011/484/EU). Please note that these forms contain a number of codes, all of which are explained either within the data forms themselves or in the end notes. More general information on SPAs and SACs in the UK is available from the SPA homepage and SAC homepage on the JNCC website. These webpages also provide links to Standard Data Forms for all SAC and SPA sites in the UK. https://jncc.gov.uk/ 1 NATURA 2000 - STANDARD DATA FORM For Special Protection Areas (SPA), Proposed Sites for Community Importance (pSCI), Sites of Community Importance (SCI) and for Special Areas of Conservation (SAC) SITE UK9006011 SITENAME Lindisfarne TABLE OF CONTENTS 1. -
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LAND-USE AND LANDSCAPE : HYDROELECTRICITY AND LANDSCAPE PROTECTION IN THE HIGHLANDS OF SCOTLAND, 1919-1980 Jill Rowan Payne A Thesis Submitted for the Degree of PhD at the University of St. Andrews 2008 Full metadata for this item is available in the St Andrews Digital Research Repository at: https://research-repository.st-andrews.ac.uk/ Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: http://hdl.handle.net/10023/562 This item is protected by original copyright This item is licensed under a Creative Commons License LAND-USE AND LANDSCAPE: HYDROELECTRICITY AND LANDSCAPE PROTECTION IN THE HIGHLANDS OF SCOTLAND, 1919 - 1980 Jill Rowan Payne Doctor of Philosophy University of St Andrews 3 April 2007 ABSTRACT This thesis employs twentieth-century hydroelectric development ventures in the Highlands of Scotland as a means of exploring conflicting demands of socio- economic development and landscape protection in cherished places. In Scotland, twentieth-century landscape protection ideals were founded upon a landscape aesthetic shaped by the principles and objectives of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Romanticism. The concept that the ‘natural’ world somehow existed separately from the world of humans, as a potential refuge from a rapidly industrialising European society, meant that the Romantic landscape aesthetic left little or no room for the incorporation of visible elements of industrialisation. This aesthetic has seen only limited change over time. As a result, satisfactory compromises between land-use and landscape protection have seldom been reached: a situation thrown into sharp relief by efforts to develop Highland water systems for the generation of hydroelectric energy during the period 1919 to 1980. -
Nov/Dec Ac 2003
From Glen to Glen and Down the Mountainside Three days through the Western Highlands from Loch Ness through Glen Affric to Kintail Story and photos by Al Churcher It began as a low rumble late August, it’s light by 5:30 a.m., and an of mine to follow the old cattle-drovers’ in the distance, accelerating in pitch and hour after that the sun had cleared the trees “road” through to the west coast. volume, until with a mighty roar it was surrounding the campsite and coaxed us Two hours after emerging from our upon us. As the floor shifted beneath us out of our tents. Starting from the end of tents, we’d left the car keys at the campsite and the walls shook, the corrugated roof Loch Ness, we had three hard days of off- office and were pedaling over the seemed to stretch upwards before shudder - road riding ahead of us. Our plan was to fol - Caledonian Canal bridge, past the yawning ing back into place as the wind tore through low ancient tracks and military roads over motorists waiting for the petrol station to the valley. The next one was louder and two barren and remote moorland ridges open. Reflecting that these were probably fiercer — and the next. And the next. into the heart of the Scottish Highlands, the last cars we’d see for the next Convinced that the roof was going to go at first into Glen Morriston and then Glen three days, we left the out - any moment, my travel-mate Kim started to Affric. -
Foundations for the Future: Learning from the Past, 2007-2010
UK Data Archive Study Number 6791 Foundations for the future: learning from the past, 2007-2010 USER GUIDE Review of the historical environmental changes in the UK uplands relevant to management and policy Dr. Althea Davies School of Biological & Environmental Sciences University of Stirling Stirling Scotland FK9 4LA Funded by the ESRC & RELU April 2008, updated January & July 2009 Review of historical environmental changes relevant to upland management & policy Contents Summary ....................................................................................................................... 4 Acknowledgements ...................................................................................................... 6 Aims and objectives of the review .............................................................................. 7 Why the uplands? ....................................................................................................... 7 Why look back? .......................................................................................................... 8 What are the obstacles? ............................................................................................. 9 Structure of the review ................................................................................................ 9 Data sources ................................................................................................................ 10 1. Moorland management & dynamics: farming in fluctuation ........................ 11 1.1 Moorland -
Protected Landscapes: the United Kingdom Experience
.,•* \?/>i The United Kingdom Expenence Department of the COUNTRYSIDE COMMISSION COMMISSION ENVIRONMENT FOR SCOTLAND NofChern ireianc •'; <- *. '•ri U M.r. , '^M :a'- ;i^'vV r*^- ^=^l\i \6-^S PROTECTED LANDSCAPES The United Kingdom Experience Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2010 with funding from UNEP-WCIVIC, Cambridge http://www.archive.org/details/protectedlandsca87poor PROTECTED LANDSCAPES The United Kingdom Experience Prepared by Duncan and Judy Poore for the Countryside Commission Countryside Commission for Scotland Department of the Environment for Northern Ireland and the International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources Published for the International Symposium on Protected Landscapes Lake District, United Kingdom 5-10 October 1987 * Published in 1987 as a contribution to ^^ \ the European Year of the Environment * W^O * and the Council of Europe's Campaign for the Countryside by Countryside Commission, Countryside Commission for Scotland, Department of the Environment for Northern Ireland and the International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources © 1987 International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources Avenue du Mont-Blanc, CH-1196 Gland, Switzerland Additional copies available from: Countryside Commission Publications Despatch Department 19/23 Albert Road Manchester M19 2EQ, UK Price: £6.50 This publication is a companion volume to Protected Landscapes: Experience around the World to be published by the International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources,