Scotland's Lost Villages

Dane Love

978 1 911043 05 8

£18.00 352pp Paperback

Illustrated with maps and photographs

2018

Across Scotland there are many lost villages - abandoned communities that no longer exist. This fascinating book takes the reader on a tour of forty such places. Many villages were created by mining companies to house their workers. Others were small seaside communities that were destroyed by wind-blown sand. Others were forcibly removed by landowners, either determined to improve their estates, or in some case, just to improve the view from their own country houses!

Villages covered:

Adamsrow, Midlothian

Arden, Lanarkshire

Avonhead, Lanarkshire

Balclevie, Fife

Benquhat, Ayrshire

Binnend, Fife

Bothwellhaugh, Lanarkshire

Burn Row, Stirlingshire

Cullen, Banffshire

Darnconner, Ayrshire

Darngavil, Lanarkshire

East Benhar, West Lothian

Eastfield, Lanarkshire

Fairfield, Fife

Fochabers, Moray

Forvie, Aberdeenshire

Gavieside, Midlothian

Glenbuck, Ayrshire

Haywood, Lanarkshire

Hermand, Midlothian

Inveraray, Argyll

Kincardine, Kincardineshire

Kingscavil, West Lothian

Lassodie, Fife

Lethanhill, Ayrshire

Longrigg, Lanarkshire

Midbreich, Midlothian

Mossend, Midlothian

Oakbank, Midlothian

Oldtown of Roseisle, Moray

Rattray, Aberdeenshire

Riccarton Junction, Roxburghshire

Roughrigg, Lanarkshire

South Cobbinshaw, Midlothian

Southfield, Stirlingshire

Westerton, West Lothian

Whiterigg, Lanarkshire

Woodend, West Lothian

Woodhead, Kirkcudbrightshire

Woodlands, Lanarkshire