Ruud Streefkerk

We are here in the Southern Highlands of Scotland. This region has a number of south-flowing rivers, dividing the landscape into a series of hills. These divisions created historical counties, most of which exist for more than a thousand  years and which in themselves are often logical geographical entities. In Scotland, they were known as Sheriffdoms: a group of parishes over which the sheriff had jurisdiction, when the indigenous Celtic forms of government were replaced by Norman feudal structures.