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St Kilda

Outer Hebrides

Britain's remotest islands, abandoned by their last 36 people in 1930.

For thousands of years people lived on St Kilda, 40 miles out into the Atlantic, climbing the cliffs for seabirds and eggs. By the 1920s, illness, emigration and failed crops had left the community struggling.

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When
Evacuated 1930
Where
57.8150, -8.5750
Group
Lost & drowned villages

Visiting

Boat trips from Harris and Uist in summer, weather permitting. A long and often rough crossing.

Cover of The Ledger of Lost Britain by Cale Mills
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The Ledger of Lost Britain

The Romans arrived in AD 43. For most people that is where the history of Britain begins. But by the time the legions landed, people had already been living on these islands for thousands of years. They had hunted, farmed, mined flint, dragged stones across the country, raised a hill by hand, and buried their dead in great tombs. They left no written words. What they left was the ground itself. Every place in this book can be visited, or has been dug up, or is in a museum.

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