crofts in English

noun
1
a small rented farm, especially one in Scotland, comprising a plot of arable land attached to a house and with a right of pasturage held in common with other such farms.
He revolutionised farming in Scotland in the 18th century, by compiling his famous Statistical Account of Scotland - a detailed survey of every farm and croft in the land.

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1. Griffin Crofts, Crofte, Crafts, or Craft

2. The Crofting Register is a public list of crofts, common grazings and land held runrig

3. A typical Crofting community in the Highlands of Scotland. Crofts for Sale in Scotland

4. 244 - Spidery Bubbles - Araneologist James Crofts-Bennett joins Samuel Mann on opposite sides of campus

5. In fact, in the north of England and in Scotland, farms can be still be referred to as ‘Crofts’, and farmers as ‘Crofters’.

6. THE UNIQUE network of abandoned crofts, cabins, huts and farmsteads that make up Scotland's Bothies is plotted in a new book

7. …relics of tiny hamlets, or Clachans, show that peasant crofts once were huddled together and worked by kinship groups in an open-field system

8. The Scottish Crofting Federation (SCF) is compiling a list of those interested in acquiring a croft and will provide information on how to find a croft and vacant crofts available

9. In the tradition of “Power Duos” Hall and Oates, Loggins and Messina, Seals and Crofts, and Tenacious D, Chuff has risen from the boggy marsh of Abbotsford, British Columbia

10. Usually they are tenants of the person who owns the land (this is the true legal meaning of the word crofter), but some Crofters have now bought their crofts and become owner-occupiers.