Castlehill, Candybank

Castlehill, Candybank is an archaeological site in South Lanarkshire, Scotland. Castlehill, Candybank is situated nearby to the forest Damhead Plantation, as well as near the archaeological site Candyburn Castle.

Type: Archaeological site
Description: hillfort in South Lanarkshire, Scotland, UK
Also known as: “Castlehill Hillfort”

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Elsrickle and Skirling.

Elsrickle

Village

Photo: james denham, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Elsrickle is a village in South Lanarkshire, Scotland. It lies on Blackmount Hill, which is at the end of the Pentland Hills. An elrick is an old place name associated with hunting and is derived from the Gaelic eileirg.

Skirling

Village

Photo: Walter Baxter, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Skirling is a parish, community council area and village in Peeblesshire in the Scottish Borders situated 2+1⁄2 miles east of Biggar in Lanarkshire. Biggar Water, a tributary the River Tweed forms the southern boundary of the parish with the parish of Broughton, Glenholm and Kilbucho.

Biggar

Photo: Fox-Talbot, Public domain.

Biggar is a market town historically in Lanarkshire and now within Clydesdale. 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

Categories: contour fort, historic site, tourist attraction, and tourism
Location: South Lanarkshire, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude

55.65509° or 55° 39′ 18″ north

Longitude

-3.48739° or 3° 29′ 15″ west

Open location code

9C7RMG47+22

OpenStreetMap ID

way 1484877065

OpenStreetMap feature

historic=archaeological_site

Wikidata ID

Q31104572

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