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
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.
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.