An important aim of this website is to stimulate research on common land and to build the capacity to do this. To begin this process, we have published a Quick Guide to Common Good which describes how to identify Common Good assets and how to go about undertaking research.

A comprehensive Community Land Rights Guide is in preparation and should be available for sale around February 2008.

Briefly the sources that can be used include

  • local history books,
  • local historians,
  • records of the former burgh (often held by the current Local Authority),
  • Registers of Scotland (Register of Sasines),
  • National Archives of Scotland.

See the Quick Guide for further information (link on the right).

This page will be expanded to include a range of research resources including the Register of Sasines Search Sheet numbers of burghs, a guide to resources in the National Archives of Scotland and a list of the location of burgh records.