The Stove Network

The Radical Land: Galson Estate & Virginia Hutchison

July 21, 2021 The Stove Network Season 1 Episode 2
The Stove Network
The Radical Land: Galson Estate & Virginia Hutchison
Show Notes

Welcome to the Radical Land. 

he Galson Estate is a community-owned estate of 56,000 acres of coast, agricultural land and moor in the North West of the Isle of Lewis in the Outer Hebrides of Scotland. The estate comprises 22 villages running from Upper Barvas to Port of Ness with a population of nearly 2,000 people. The estate passed into community ownership on 12 January 2007 to be managed on their behalf by the Trust.