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LAMMERMOOR HILLS Lammermoor Hills
Lammermoor Hills
Lammermoor Hills
Lammermoor Hills
Lammermoor Hills
Lammermoor Hills
Fullarton's Gazeteer
Statistical Acct. [Account] of Berwickshire
George Craig Mire: Kelso
Thomas Hooker
Joseph Pattison
Peter Dodds Esqr
A broad range of moorish heights stretching eastwards from the vale of Gala Water, on the southeast extremity of Midlothian, to the German Ocean at the promontaries of Fast Castle and St Abb's Head. From the middle of the lofty mountain range, which begins at Cheviot in Northumberland, and, passing into Scotland, runs quite across it to Lochryan - from the most elevated part of it called the Louthers ot the Hartfell Heights at the meeting points of the counties of Dumfries, Lanark and Peebles, a less lofty and a less remarkable range goes off north eastward and rolls accross Peeblesshire to the vale of the Gala, and but for being cloven or ploughed through by this vale, would, under the name of the Lammermoor Hills, be continuous to the Sea. The Lammermoor Hill all lie within East Lothian and Berwickshire. commencing at the extreme western limit forming for two third of their extent a Southern Screen, or belt of uplands to Midlothian and constituting - if the Lammermoor part of Lauderdale be included - nearly one half of Berwickshire The Lammermoors were at one time clothed with forests. They still have natural woods hanging on some of their steeps, but over their summits and down their higher slopes they nakedly dressed in heath. Among some of their remarkable summits are. Lammerlair, Criblaw, Clint Hill Tippet Knowes, Manslaughter Law Twinlaw Hill Earlston-hill and Great Dirrington Law.
Extract from Fullartons Gazeteer of Scotland

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