This document sets out a research framework for historic rural settlement
studies in Scotland and has been written on behalf of the Historic Rural
Settlement Group (www.molrs.org.uk). The Historic Rural Settlement Group
(HRSG) developed from the Medieval or Later Rural Settlement (MoLRS)
Advisory Group, set up in 1993 to advise Historic Scotland on its policy and to
discuss issues and priorities for rural settlement studies. In 2000, the MoLRS
Advisory Group was reconstituted as an independent body – the MoLRS
Working Group – which became the HRSG in 2004.