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Treasured Places

Date 8 August 2007

Event ID 553867

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Treasured Places

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/553867

The arrangement of St Kilda Village along a curving street is the result of mid-19th century improvement. Each house had an allocated strip of cultivable land to front and rear, beyond which lay common grazing. Distinctive drystone storage structures, known as cleitan, are scattered throughout the landscape. There are over 1,400 cleitan known throughout the St Kilda archipelago, but they are concentrated in the area around the village.

The population of St Kilda declined throughout the later 19th and early 20th centuries, the final thirty-six inhabitants leaving in 1930. There is now a small military base and seasonal occupation by National Trust for Scotland staff, volunteers and other visitors.

Information from RCAHMS (SC) 8 August 2007

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