Cairnpapple Hill
Cairnpapple Hill is a hill with a dominating position in central lowland Scotland with views from coast to coast. It was used and re-used as a major ritual site for around 4,000 years, and in its day would have been comparable to better known sites like the Standing Stones of Stenness.Photo: JeremyA, CC BY-SA 2.5.
- Type: Hill with an elevation of 1,024 feet
- Description: Neolithic henge monument
- Also known as: “Cairnpapple Hill, prehistoric ceremonial complex”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Torphichen Preceptory and Bathgate High Church.
Torphichen Preceptory
Church
Photo: JThomas, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Torphichen Preceptory is a church in the village of Torphichen, West Lothian, Scotland. It comprises the remains of the preceptory of the Knights Hospitaller of the Order of St John of Jerusalem in Scotland.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Torphichen and Boghall.
Torphichen
Village
Photo: Stephencdickson, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Torphichen is a historic small village located north of Bathgate in West Lothian, Scotland. The village is approximately 18 miles west of Edinburgh, 7 miles south-east of Falkirk and 4 miles south-west of Linlithgow.
Boghall
Suburb
Boghall is a Council Estate built in the early 1960s in West Lothian, Scotland just to the east of Bathgate. Boghall has a range of amenities including a community centre, post office, 3 Corner Shops, a Scotmid supermarket, pharmacy, and a chip shop. Boghall is situated 1½ miles south of Cairnpapple Hill.
Bathgate
Town
Photo: Richard Webb, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Bathgate is a town in West Lothian, Scotland, 5 miles west of Livingston and adjacent to the M8 motorway. Nearby towns are Linlithgow, Livingston, and West Calder. Bathgate is situated 1½ miles southwest of Cairnpapple Hill.
Cairnpapple Hill
- Categories: mountain, archaeological site, and landform
- Location: West Lothian, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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In Other Languages
From Chinese to Russian—“Cairnpapple Hill” goes by many names.
- Chinese: “肯帕普山”
- Dutch: “Cairnpapple Hill”
- Egyptian Arabic: “جبل كايرنپاپل هيل”
- French: “Cairnpapple Hill”
- German: “Cairnpapple Hill”
- Japanese: “ケアンパップル・ヒル”
- Ladin: “Cairnpapple Hill”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Cairnpapple Hill”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Cairnpapple Hill”
- Norwegian: “Cairnpapple Hill”
- Russian: “Кэрнпаппл-Хилл”
- Russian: “Кэрнпэппл-Хилл”
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