Image Cabrach Ruin Strathdon TO3347302JHP by Jim Henderson

 
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This gallery includes rural, scenic and landscape subjects of the Shire, including Kincardineshire, Mearns, Garioch, Buchan Strathbogie and Mar.
Cabrach Ruin Strathdon TO3347302JHP The Cabrach moor on the road from Rhynie to Dufftown offer some of Aberdeenshire and Morayshire bleakest landscapes especially during a nasty winter day. A few ruined crofts or farms can be seen and evidence of past Highland clearances as well as illustrating the hard life of farming in this unfertile moorland where in today’s harsh economic climate even sheep farming is a struggle. Keywords: Scotland, Scottish, Grampian, Aberdeenshire, Highlands, Strathdon, Cabrach, rural, landscape, spring, ruined, ruins, house, windswept, granite, stone, roofless, desolate, hill, Creagdearg, Longlands, Whitehillock, Elrick, heather, moorland, land-use, barren, grass, rugged, sheep, clearances, derelict, farm, farms, farming, agriculture, hill, rugged, hard
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Photographer: Jim Henderson
Collection: Aberdeenshire
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Cabrach Ruin Strathdon TO3347302JHP
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The Cabrach moor on the road from Rhynie to Dufftown

offer some of Aberdeenshire and Morayshire bleakest landscapes especially during a nasty winter day. A few ruined crofts or farms can be seen and evidence of past Highland clearances as well as illustrating the hard life of farming in this unfertile moorland where in today’s harsh economic climate even sheep farming is a struggle.
Keywords: Scotland, Scottish, Grampian, Aberdeenshire, Highlands, Strathdon, Cabrach, rural, landscape, spring, ruined, ruins, house, windswept, granite, stone, roofless, desolate, hill, Creagdearg, Longlands, Whitehillock, Elrick, heather, moorland, land-use, barren, grass, rugged, sheep, clearances, derelict, farm, farms, farming, agriculture, hill, rugged, hard