Lot 18: Uig Crofters
By sarah | May 12th, 2010 | Category: History, Land Issues, Sporting Estates | No Comments »In 1923, Lord Leverhulme began to dispose of his Lewis estates, first offering to give the island to its inhabitants. Stornoway Town Council and Stornoway Trust accepted Lews Castle and the crofts around the town, but Lewis District Council feared that on the sporting and crofting estates the expenditure exceeded the income, and declined the offer. Angus ‘Ease’ Macleod remarked that “some people might be inclined to say that the Lewis District Council failed to appreciate the historical significance, both to themselves, and to posterity, of [ » read more ]
Stornoway, UNITED KINGDOM