Abandoned Communities ..... Still More Places
Stowe village in Buckinghamshire was deserted in the seventeenth century, when members of the Temple family created and then extended the deer park on their estate.
The village of Binnend in Fife was built in 1881 to house staff at the Binnend shale oil works. By 1894 the oil works had closed, but the village survived until 1954, when the last inhabitant left.
In Strathcarron in the Highlands Glencalvie was cleared in 1845 to make way for sheep farming, and Greenyard in 1854. On both estates women provided stiff resistance, but could not stop the evictions going ahead.
On the north east coast of Scotland several places were affected by shifting sand. Some were covered by sand dunes, the prosperity of others was damaged when bars of sand and shingle changed their position.
Bothwellhaugh was a village that developed close to the Hamilton Palace colliery in the Clyde valley. It was abandoned in 1966 partly because the colliery closed, but also because of a major problem involving raw sewage.
Many coal mining communities in Ayrshire were abandoned before and after World War
II. The mines were closing, but in addition the housing was cramped and lacked basic
facilities. People were re-
