Leap Hill
Leap Hill is a peak in Scottish Borders, Scotland and has an elevation of 1,549 feet. Leap Hill is situated nearby to the locality Black Rig, as well as near Sandy Edge.Places of Interest
Highlights include Maiden Paps and Whitrope Siding.
Maiden Paps
Peak
Photo: Walter Baxter, CC BY-SA 2.0.
The Maiden Paps are twin hills near Hawick, in the Scottish Borders of the south east of Scotland, so named because they have the shape of human breasts.
Whitrope Siding
Railway station
Photo: Dougsim, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Whitrope Siding was a trailing short siding or spur off the "up" line, an associated trailing cross-over between up and down lines, a pair of railway cottages and a signal box on the Waverley Line or Waverley Route.
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.
Leap Hill
- Type: Peak with an elevation of 1,549 feet
- Category: landform
- Location: Scottish Borders, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
55.30421° or 55° 18′ 15″ northLongitude
-2.7676° or 2° 46′ 3″ westElevation
1,549 feet (472 metres)Open location code
9C7V863J+MXOpenStreetMap ID
node 3799117023OpenStreetMap feature
natural=peakGeoNames ID
12613173
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