Agricultural History Review, Volume 49 Part 1 (2001), pp. 17–40

Between 1720 and the 1850s some 490 planned villages, characterized by a regular layout of streets, building plots and adjacent fields (or Lotted Lands) were founded on estates throughout Scotland including loo or so in north-east Scotland. Lotted lands were fields, typically subdivided into one- or two-acr e lots, which were leased to villagers to grow crops such as oats and turnips and for grazing cattle and horses. Agricultural activities were particularly important where labouring and domestic industries provided insufficient employment. Working lotted lands gradually became less popular during the first half of the twentieth century though they continued to exist in a few places until the 1970s. 

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