Tour Scotland wee travel video of photographs, with Scottish music, of Auchindrain, Scottish Gaelic: Achadh an Droighinn, on ancestry, genealogy, history visit to Argyll and Bute. This is the only township to survive substantially unaltered from amongst the many hundreds that existed across the Scottish Highlands before the Highland Clearances of the late 18th and 19th centuries. From the early 1500s to the 1770s Auchindrain was just another township, one of thousands spread across Scotland. Almost nothing is known about this period other than the identities of successive owners or principal tenants, and the appearance of some of the township’s people’s names where they appear in legal documents. In 1776 the Duke of Argyll reacquired the township, the Duke and his Chamberlain, or Factor, were early enthusiasts for the principles of agricultural improvement. Auchindrain is included in a list from 1779 of all those living on the Duke’s land. A plan was made in 1789, by the surveyor George Langlands, for the township to be rebuilt and reorganised into crofts as many of the other townships in were. In Auchindrain this was never implemented, possibly because the investment required would not have justified the financial return. In 1875, when Queen Victoria was staying at Inveraray Castle, she visited what she called the “ primitive village ” of Auchindrain.
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