Blackwood Hill

Blackwood Hill is a peak in Scottish Borders, Scotland and has an elevation of 1,467 feet. Blackwood Hill is situated nearby to the hamlet Leysburnfoot, as well as near the locality Ninestane Rig.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Hermitage Castle and Whitrope Viaduct.

Hermitage Castle

Castle

Photo: Kirsty Smith, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Hermitage Castle is a semi-ruined castle in the border region of Scotland. It stands in the remote valley of the Hermitage Water, part of Liddesdale in Roxburghshire.

Whitrope Viaduct

Bridge

Photo: Oliver Dixon, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Whitrope Viaduct is a bridge.

Saughtree railway station

Guest house

Photo: Les Hull, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Saughtree railway station is a closed railway station situated a mile north of the hamlet of Saughtree and two miles from the border with England.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Ninestane Rig and Hermitage.

Ninestane Rig

Locality

Photo: Walter Baxter, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Ninestane Rig is a small stone circle in Scotland near the English border. Located in Roxburghshire, near to Hermitage Castle, it was probably made between 2000 BC and 1250 BC, during the Late Neolithic or early Bronze Age.

Hermitage

Hamlet

Hermitage is a village near Newcastleton, on the B6399, in the Scottish Borders area of Scotland.

Saughtree

Hamlet

Saughtree is a hamlet in the Scottish Borders at the junction of the B6357 and an unnamed road from Kielder village in Northumberland, England. It is at the confluence of the Liddel Water and Dawston Burn, in Liddesdale.

Blackwood Hill

Type: Peak with an elevation of 1,467 feet
Category: landform
Location: Scottish Borders, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude

55.25768° or 55° 15′ 28″ north

Longitude

-2.73832° or 2° 44′ 18″ west

Elevation

1,467 feet (447 metres)

Open location code

9C7V7756+3M

OpenStreetMap ID

node 13810838602

OpenStreetMap feature

natural=peak

GeoNames ID

12608015

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Localities in the Area

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