West Cairn Hill
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 West Cairn Hill |
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| height | 562 m ASL | |
| location | Scottish Borders , West Lothian , Scotland | |
| Mountains | Pentland Hills | |
| Coordinates | 55 ° 48 '38 " N , 3 ° 25' 33" W | |
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The West Cairnhill is a hill in the Scottish Pentland Hills . With a height of 562 m, it is the fifth highest elevation and lies on the western flank of the approximately 25 km long chain of hills.
The border between the Council Areas Scottish Borders and West Lothian runs over the knoll . The closest settlement is the hamlet of Carlops around six kilometers southeast. West Calder is nine kilometers to the northwest and Penicuik is eleven kilometers to the east. The Cauldstane Slap pass runs at the saddle point between West and East Cairn Hill . The surrounding hills include Colzium Hill and Torweaving Hill in the southwest, East Cairn Hill in the northeast and Wether Law in the east.
Surroundings
The Cauldstane Slap, a formerly important pass route, runs between East and West Cairn Hill . With a maximum height of 441 m, it connected West Lothian with the Scottish Borders.
There is a cairn on top of the West Cairn Hills . This was badly disturbed and today still measures 13.7 m at a height of 1.1 m. Border walls run through the cairn.
The Harperrig Reservoir is in front of the northwest flank . Established in 1860, the reservoir dams the water of the Water of Leith and serves both to supply Edinburgh with water and to regulate the flow of the Water of Leith.
View over the forest of West Cairns, on the right the Harperrig Reservoir
Cauldstane Slap between East (left) and West Cairn Hill (right)
Triangulation point on West Cairn Hill
Individual evidence
- ^ Entry in the Gazetteer for Scotland
- ^ Entry in the Gazetteer for Scotland
- ↑ Entry on West Cairn Hill in Canmore, the database of Historic Environment Scotland (English)
- ^ Entry in the Gazetteer for Scotland
