Agricultural History Review, Volume 50 Part 2 (2002), pp. 181–202

The introduction of commercial sheep farming to Sutherland has been associated with the Sutherland clearances of the early nineteenth century. This study examines the history of sheep farming on different estates in Sutherland during the eighteenth century, from the aristocratic experiments of the 1730s and 1740s to the marked expansion during the last quarter of the century. By 1800 sheep farming was firmly established in Sutherland. 

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