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South Lanarkshire

Castlehill, Candybank

Castlehill, Candybank is an archaeological site in , . Castlehill, Candybank is situated nearby to the forest , as well as near the archaeological site .
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  • Type: Archaeological site
  • Description: hillfort in South Lanarkshire, Scotland, UK
  • Also known as: “Castle Hill fort”

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Elsrickle and Skirling.

Village
Photo: james denham, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is a village in , Scotland. It lies on Blackmount Hill, which is at the end of the . An elrick is an old place name associated with hunting and is derived from the Gaelic eileirg.

Village
Photo: Walter Baxter, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is a parish, community council area and village in Peeblesshire in the situated 2+1⁄2 miles east of in . , a tributary the River Tweed forms the southern boundary of the parish with the parish of Broughton, Glenholm and Kilbucho.

Photo: Fox-Talbot, Public domain.
is a market town historically in Lanarkshire and now within . It's nowadays a commuter town for both Edinburgh and Glasgow, and in 2020 had a population of 2640. Its attractions are a rare combination: a gasworks museum and a puppet theatre.

Castlehill, Candybank

Latitude
55.65518° or 55° 39′ 19″ north
Longitude
-3.48739° or 3° 29′ 15″ west
Open location code
9C7RMG47+32
Open­Street­Map ID
node 8086398499
Open­Street­Map feature
historic=­archaeological_site
Wiki­data ID
Q31104572
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Highlights include Castle Hill and Damhead Plantation.

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