Arran’s Agriculture
The second instalment of Jim Henderson’s survey of Arran’s agricultural history takes us up to 1800.
In 1766, when the seventh Duke of Hamilton was only 11 years old and still at Eton (he died only three years later) his trustees commissioned John Burrell, a factor at the Duke’s Firth of Forth estates, to draw up plans for ‘improving’ the Arran estate.
An old croft at Pirnmill.
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