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World-class Orienteering

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Culligran Estate

The first week in August 2015 saw 6000 competitors and many more fans of the sport from all corners of the world descend on Culligran Estate in Glen Strathfarrar. The Scottish 6 Days...

Glenesk Retreat and Folk Museum

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Dalhousie Estates

Situated on the eastern edge of the Cairngorm National Park, near the Angus hamlet of Tarfside, the Glenesk Retreat and Folk Museum has a proud past and – thanks to the support of...

Isle of Colonsay Festival of Spring

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Colonsay Estate

In 2010 a group of tourist operators on the Isle of Colonsay formed the Colonsay Tourism Marketing Group with the aim of increasing tourist numbers on the island and improving their...

Boat of Garten Housing Development

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Seafield & Strathspey Estates

Boat of Garten is an attractive village lying beside the River Spey and around 7 miles from Aviemore and 9 miles from Grantown on Spey.

With the Speyside Way and the...

Learning at Pitcarmick Estate

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Pitcarmick Estate

Sir Michael and Lady Sally Nairn, owners of Pitcarmick Estate in Perth and Kinross invited a group of children from the local school to come along and learn all about estate...

Garrocher Tree Farm Creetown

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Primary school pupils usually spend the run-up to the festive season making presents and learning about the Nativity story – instead of this, over 200 children visited Garrocher Christmas Tree Farm, a...

Quantifying Public Benefits from Private Land

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Penicuik Estate

It is often difficult to quantify the amount of public benefit that private landowners provide. Landowners tend to underestimate that benefit because they regard it as just something...

Clan Cameron Museum, Achnacarry

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Achnacarry Estate

The Clan Cameron Museum at Achnacarry was the fulfilment of a collaborative project started in 1987 by Donald Cameron of Lochiel and his wife, Lady Cecil Cameron, with support from...

Countryside Learning in Cowal

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Ardtaraig Estate

For a couple of chilly days in April, Ardtaraig Estate on the Cowal Peninsula, in collaboration with the education charity Countryside Learning Scotland, invited four local primary...

Roxburghe Allotments

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Roxburghe Estate

After the town’s previous allotments had been acquired by a developer in 2006 to build a new supermarket, the local community in Kelso were actively seeking out a new allotment site...

Woodend Barn - Buchanan's Bistro

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Leys Estate

Located at the gateway to Royal Deeside, Leys Estate has grown organically over the years; reflecting the demands placed upon it from a changing world but staying true to its long...

Community, woodland and squirrels

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Sorn Estate

Sorn is a traditional rural estate with in hand and let farming interests, let residential property, renewable energy, sporting, forestry and heritage property.

For many years the estate...