“However, enthusiasm for crofting is greater than it has been for decades, she added.”

“The entire agricultural output of crofting could be fitted comfortably into a handful of large east coast farms.”

“It's a squitty little island with bad roads and impoverished crofting townships.”

“After retiring, Emily dedicated herself to cultivating vegetables on her small croft, enjoying the peacefulness and connection to nature it provided.”

“In the museum gardens are several reconstructions including a Roman temple, shop, house, and Northumbrian croft, all with audio presentations.”

“Crofters gained the right to buy croft lands and common grazings even if their landlord did not want to sell.”

“If farmers' sons did not marry within their own class, they were most likely to marry the daughter of a crofter or farm worker.”

“Their son would grow up on this craggy outcrop they called home and become an experienced fowler, cragsman and crofter.”

“Dad is a crofter and a raddled drunk, who has an accident with a sheep that puts him in bed for a few days.”

“Twenty crofters who share common grazing can meet regularly to decide how many beasts each can graze on the common.”

“At the start of the period, the most homogamous groups were the sons of farmers, and to a lesser extent those of crofters and farm workers.”

“I have friends and acquaintances who are farmers and crofters, many of whom, in upland areas, depend on sheep and lambs for their livelihood.”