A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
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A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
Including maps, statistical trends and historical descriptions.
Lowther, Green, a mountain (2403 feet) in Crawford parish, Lanarkshire, 1 7/8 mile ESE of Wanlockhead and 8½ miles ENE of Sanquhar. Lowther Hill (2377 feet) rises 1 mile to the SW, at the meeting point with the Dumfriesshire parishes of Sanquhar and Durisdeer; and these two summits, occupying a chief place among the central masses of the Southern Highlands, give the name of Lowthers, as a general or comprehensive name, to the great range extending eastward across the S of Lanarkshire and the N of Dumfriesshire, to the southern borders of Peebles and Selkirk shires. Dr John Brown, in his Enterkin, has finely pictured their ` vast expanse covered with thick, short, tawny grass and moss,' and the graves of the suicides who used to be buried here.—Ord. Sur., sh. 15, 1864.
(F.H. Groome, Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland (1882-4); © 2004 Gazetteer for Scotland)
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| Feature Description: | "a mountain" (ADL Feature Type: "mountains") |
| Administrative units: | Crawford ScoP Lanarkshire ScoCnty |
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