Simplify the following text for a Grade 8 native English-speaking person.
Original: Round the house , in the rift valley , is farmland , but within a short distance to the north-west , on the other side of the fault , are the Grampian Mountains in the Highlands .
Simplified: Round the house is farmland , but within a short distance to the north-west are the Grampian Mountains in the Scottish Highlands .