A land raid was a form of political protest in rural Scotland, primarily in the Highlands.
A land raid was a form of political protest in rural Scotland, primarily in the Highlands.
Land raids were particularly common in the Hebrides, but some of the most prominent cases occurred on the mainland, for example in Wester Ross and in Sutherland.
The latter was a fertile island run as a single farm but its owner Lady Emily Gordon Cathcart had only visited once in 54 years.
[2] The Seven Men of Knoydart were returning servicemen who made an unsuccessful raid on land belonging to Nazi sympathiser Lord Brocket in 1948.