Rural Scotland People, Prosperity and Partnership

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Glenlivet Estate

The 23,000 hectare estate at Glenlivet in Banffshire, owned by the Crown Estate, has long supported a community based upon upland farming activities. As well as farming and forestry, there is a large sporting interest covering grouse-shooting, salmon-fishing and deer-stalking which is let on a single sporting lease. In the late 1980s uncertainty about the future of hill and upland farming and the need to ensure that this remote rural area could continue to support a prosperous and settled community led to the Glenlivet Development Project whose aim was to encourage farm diversification and develop improved provision for tourists. Greater public access and the creation of new businesses have now achieved a strengthening of the base of the local economy.