What is a Croft? Explain.
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A croft is a fenced or enclosed area of land, usually small and arable, and usually, but not always, with a crofter's dwelling thereon. A crofter is one who has tenure and use of the land, typically as a tenant farmer, especially in rural areas.
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Explanation:
It used to be (fairly) simple.
In the Crofters Holdings (Scotland) Act 1886, a “crofter” was a “person who at the passing of this Act is tenant of a holding from year to year, who resides on his holding, the annual rent of which does not exceed thirty pounds in money, and which is situated in a crofting parish, and the successors of such person in the holding, being his heirs or legatees”. The same Act defines a “holding” as “any piece of land held by a crofter, consisting of arable or pasture land, or of land partly arable and partly pasture and which has been occupied and used as arable or pasture land (whether such pasture land is held by the crofter alone, or in common with others) immediately preceding the passing of this Act, including the site of his dwelling-house and any offices or other conveniences connected therewith, but does not include garden ground only, appurtenant to a house”. So a crofter was someone with a holding or croft and a holding was land occupied by a crofter. Easy!
In practice, this meant a small area of agricultural land (with or without a house), held on a tenancy and situated in one of the seven Crofting Counties: Argyll, Caithness, Inverness, Orkney, Ross and Cromarty, Sutherland and Zetland (Shetland).
Over the years the definition changed and for a period last century “croft” and crofter” ceased to have any legal meaning. The terms were restore by the Crofters (Scotland ) Act 1955 and the majority of crofts which exist today are crofts simply because they met the definition in 1955.
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