crofts
Small British landholdings
Crofts is the plural of croft, a small farm or enclosed field, particularly in Scotland and northern England.
A croft typically includes a cottage and a modest plot of land worked by a tenant farmer called a crofter: The Highland crofts dotted the hillside.
The word survives mainly in British rural and historical contexts.
Scottish tenant farmers
- tenancyRenter's period of residence
- smallholdingSmall cultivated land parcel
- allotmentDesignated share or portion
- leaseholdRented property interest
subsistence · freehold · landholding · steading · homestead · dwelling · cottage · bothy
Family line of descent
- traditionCustom passed through generations
- clanRelated group sharing ancestry
- inheritanceProperty received from ancestors
- genealogyStudy of family descent
clearances · eviction · resettlement · preservation · historic · communal · oral-history · township
Soil preparation for planting
- plowingTurning earth for crops
- sowingPlanting for cultivation
- harvestingGathering mature crops
- husbandryFarm management practice
arable · fallow · seedbed · oats · barley · potatoes · turnips · kale
crofters
Scottish tenant farmers
- tenancyRenter's period of residence
- smallholdingSmall cultivated land parcel
- allotmentDesignated share or portion
leasehold · subsistence · freehold · landholding · steading · homestead · dwelling · cottage · bothy · outbuildings
ancestry
Family line of descent
- traditionCustom passed through generations
- clanRelated group sharing ancestry
- inheritanceProperty received from ancestors
genealogy · clearances · eviction · resettlement · preservation · historic · communal · oral-history · township · kinship
tillage
Soil preparation for planting
- plowingTurning earth for crops
- sowingPlanting for cultivation
- harvestingGathering mature crops
husbandry · arable · fallow · seedbed · oats · barley · potatoes · turnips · kale · spade
grazing
Feeding on pasture
- livestockDomesticated farm animals
- cattleDomesticated bovines kept commercially
- sheepWoolly farm animal
poultry · lambing · herding · sheepdog · pastureland · fodder · overwintering · shearing · pigs · geese
rural
Of the countryside
- countrysideRural area beyond towns
- hamletTiny rural settlement
- villageSmall rural community
meadow · moorland · hillside · coastal · highland · islands · hedgerow · verdant · bucolic · rustic
- British Countrysidehedgerow, village, hedgerows, hamlet, moorland
- rural structuresbarns, stables, farmhouses, outbuildings, silos
- Celtic dwellingsbothy, Scottish castles, round towers, thatched cottages, stone cottages
- Unst
- ScotlandGlasgow, Edinburgh, Highlands, whisky, bagpipes
- Scottish geographyEdinburgh, Glasgow, Aberdeen, Highlands, Hebrides
croftsestates
Large property holdings
ranches · plantations · landed estates · haciendas · manors
croftscommercial farms
Large profit-oriented agricultural operations
factory farms · industrial farms · industrial agriculture · corporate farms