A good place for hiding illicit whisky stills it seems! Apart from traces of houses, there is also the well preserved remains of a kiln used for drying grain. (I think this is so but I did not try it out.)Īfter leaving Helmsdale on the A897 north of the river Helmsdale, Kilphedir and the Chorick settlement was my first stop.
#Maptiler static map with a pin code#
Then there are information boards along the Clearances Trail itself with QR code links to the same information. I’d recommend this for background, whether or not you are actually visiting. The Museum without Walls app from the Timespan Museum in Helmsdale (iPhone or iPad only). There are two things, apart from a good map, to help you find your way. 1 New Statistical Account (1845), Kildonan, p147 Some settled in Helmsdale a village in Sutherland on the north east coast of Scotland, between Inverness and Wick. The population of the parish fell from 1440 in 1801 to 257 in 1831. The Clearances Trailīetween 18, many of the inhabitants of Kildonan, tenants of the Duke and Duchess of Sutherland, were cleared from their homes to make way for sheep. Links to information about the Clearances in general at the end. Here’s a little about my day along with some background. It was a place I wanted to visit.įar too many years later, partly inspired by a UHI History student’s blog post about a field trip there, and on the best day of summer 2020, I finally visited Kildonan. Equally vivid is the impact of the strath of Kildonan as the train chugged slowly through this cleared landscape. I recall feeling angry as I read how the tenants were compelled to contribute to this memorial to the man who had turned them from their lands. The memory is vivid as the journey took us past the statue of the Duke of Sutherland above Golspie, Sutherland.
What kinds of maps would you like to make? Make three different maps and label them all with a map key.In summer 1976 I read The Highland Clearances by John Prebble on the long trip north by train from a family holiday in Edinburgh. Others are interactive or embedded with data. Some maps are static representation like a photograph. See how many different kinds of maps you can find. Cell phone usage maps show density of usage in certain areas of the world connecting to other areas of the world. Airline maps show the airline routes in the sky. Land use maps or zoning maps record human activity and purpose through color-coding of building types. Distribution maps show things like population, or rainfall. Elevation maps show how high or low land forms are, with valleys being low and mountain peaks and ranges high. Physical maps show land forms and bodies of water such as mountains, deserts, plains, rivers and oceans. Political maps show countries’ capitals and political boundaries. Scale: size of map in relation to the real world Prime meridian: 0 degree longitude that starts hourly marking of world’s sphere Longitude: lines that run north and south which locate Latitude: lines parallel to the equator that run east and west
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