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| List of names as written | Various modes of spelling | Authorities for spelling | Situation | Description remarks |
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| LAMMERMOOR HILLS | Lammermoor Hills | Gazetteer of Scotland New Statistical Account. Ber: [Berwickshire] Map of Berwickshire |
004 | A broad range of Moorish heights, stretching eastwards from the Vale of Galla Water in the S. [South] East extremity of Mid-Lothian, to the German Ocean atthe promontories of Fast Castle, Ernscleugh & St. Abbs Head, in the parish of Coldingham, Berwickshire The Lammermoors all lie within East Lothian & Berwickshire; commencing at their extreme western limit, forming for two-thirds of their extent, a Southern screen or belt of uplands to Mid-Lothian & constituting - if the Lammermoor part of Lauder be included - nearly one half of Berwickshire. The range forms with the Loftier & commanding chain of the Cheviots & the Lauthens, whence it diverges, the Vast triangular basin of the Tweed. The Lammermoors are, in themselves, an extensive Carriture of, for the most part, wild, cheerless, unsightly heights, nowhere bold & imposing in aspect, and often subsiding into low eroding table lands, of bleak moor. They were at one time Clothed with forest, & must then have been as bewildering to the traveller as grandly sylvan in their vast Contribution to the landscape. They still have natural woods hanging on some of their Steeps and, in such localities are warmed out of their chilliness of aspect; but over their summits, & down their slopes, they are almost everywhere nakedly dressed in heath. "Lammerlaw", which rises in the parish of Lauder, and gives name to the whole range, has an altitude of 1500 feet, Criblaw 1615, Clinthill 1544, Tippet Knowes 1323, Manslaughter-law 1273, Twinlawshill 1260, Earlstonhill 1200, Great Dirrington Law 1145, Ayrhousehill 1054, Bemerside hill 1011, and Cockburnlaw 912 feet. Gazetteer of Scotland P. [Page] 206. Vol. [Volume] 11 |
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