Creating a New Common Grazing

New grazings

A new common grazings cannot be created if the land:

  • is tenanted or occupied by a cottar
  • borders or shares a boundary with a croft
  • is already registered as a croft

Registering grazings

Registers of Scotland keeps a public register of crofts, common grazings and land held runrig.

To date, over 300 common grazings have been registered.

At this time, the Crofting Commission are not undertaking any new Common Grazings registrations.