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[back to top] Historic rural settlement refers to places where people who owned and farmed the countryside lived over the past 1500 or so years. Historic rural settlement sites include houses and townships, field systems and shielings, lime kilns and illicit whisky stills. This website deals particularly with the historic rural settlement of Scotland.
