The Lowther Hills, also sometimes known as the Lowthers, are an extensive area of hill country in the Southern Uplands of Scotland, though some sub-ranges...
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Lowther Hill is a hill in the Lowther Hills range, part of the Southern Uplands of Scotland. Although the hill lends its name to the range, it is the second...
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Wanlockhead (section Lowther Hills Ski Centre)
Wanlockhead is a village in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland, nestling in the Lowther Hills and 1 mile (2 kilometres) south of Leadhills at the head of the Mennock...
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Leadhills (section Lowther Hills Ski Centre)
railway is 1,498 feet (457 m) above sea level.[citation needed] The Lowther Hills is one of the birthplaces of Scottish winter sports. Curling in Leadhills...
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Southern Uplands (section Hill ranges)
of Moffat. Ettrick Hills south of Moffatdale. Lowther Hills between Clydesdale/Annandale and Nithsdale. Carsphairn and Scaur Hills between Nithsdale and...
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Sutherland. There have been several attempts to run commercial mines. In the Lowther Hills, Leadhills, and Wanlockhead areas gold prospecting and the extraction...
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Firth, and in its higher reaches it separates the Moffat hills on the east from the Lowther hills to the west. A 53-mile (85 km) long-distance walking route...
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Rio Huaypetue mine Lapland Ahmavaara mine Kittilä mine Beinn Chùirn Lowther Hills Gondo Gold Mine List of gold mines in Mongolia List of gold mines in...
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Dungeon Hills Rhinns of Kells Minnigaff Hills Carsphairn and Scaur Hills Lowther Hills Moffat Hills Pentland Hills Moorfoot Hills Manor Hills Lammermuir...
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Green Lowther is a hill in the Lowther Hills range, part of the Southern Uplands of Scotland. It is the highest point of the Lowther Hills and lies in...
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Saddle Yoke (2,412 ft or 735 m), Swatte Fell (2,389 ft or 728 m), Lowther Hills (2,377 ft or 725 m), Queensbury (2,285 ft or 696 m) and Ettrick Pen...
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Queensberry is a hill in the Lowther Hills range, part of the Southern Uplands of Scotland. The most southerly mountain in the range, it lies in the parish...
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the west coast railway line. This gap through the hills separates the Lowthers from the Moffat Hills. River Esk enters the Solway Firth just south of Gretna...
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East Mount Lowther is a hill in the Lowther Hills range, part of the Southern Uplands of Scotland. The hill is most often climbed as a detour before or...
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Gana Hill is a hill in the Lowther Hills range, part of the Southern Uplands of Scotland. Often considered the hill on which the source of the River Clyde...
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Lowther Castle is a crenellated country house in the historic county of Westmorland, which now under the current unitary authority of Westmorland and...
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Earncraig Hill is a hill in the Lowther Hills range, part of the Southern Uplands of Scotland. The lowest and craggiest Donald hill in the range, it lies...
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River Clyde in the Southern Uplands of Scotland. It lies within the Lowther Hills in South Lanarkshire. It is accessible by a minor public road leaving...
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Nithsdale valley with the Carsphairn and Scaur range to the west and the Lowther hills to the east. It was initially a small village, planned and built in...
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Archived from the original on 15 July 2014. Retrieved 26 January 2012. 329 Lowther Hills, Sanquhar & Leadhills (Map). 1:25000. Explorer. Ordnance Survey – via...
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consort to the Earl of Queensberry Queensberry (hill), Lowther Hills, Southern Uplands, Scotland, UK; a 697 m hill Queensberry, New Zealand, a locality in Otago...
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Galloway Council and Scottish Borders Council; a short section in the Lowther Hills lies in South Lanarkshire. It is primarily intended for walkers, but...
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River Nith in southwest Scotland. It rises in the Dalveen Pass in the Lowther Hills as its headwater streams, the Dinabid Linn, Dalveen Lane and Lavern...
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is predominantly flat and agricultural, rising to the south with the Lowther Hills of the Southern Uplands, with Culter Fell on the border with Peeblesshire...
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Lousie Wood Law (category Mountains and hills of the Southern Uplands)
Lousie Wood Law is a hill in the Lowther Hills range, part of the Southern Uplands of Scotland. The terminal northeast Donald on the main ridge in the...
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Dun Law (category Mountains and hills of South Lanarkshire)
Dun Law is a hill in the Lowther Hills range, part of the Southern Uplands of Scotland. It is the next Donald after Green Lowther, the highest point of...
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grant of £200, Bulmer returned to Scotland to search for gold in the Lowther Hills in March 1605. He had 102 workmen at Bailliegill, Langcleuch (to the...
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Housesteads Ninebanks Scotland Glenae Tower Kinnelhead Bastle-House Lowther Hills See also: Barmkin Border Reivers Peel tower Tower house Tower houses...
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English hēafod, here 'hill-top', in general, 'head', 'headland', 'summit', 'upper end' or 'source of a stream'. If so, it describes the hill-top on which Holy...
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the historic boundary between Scotland and England. It rises in the Lowther Hills at Tweed's Well near to where the Clyde, draining northwest (10 kilometres...
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