Campsie Fells
The Campsie Fells are a range of hills in central Scotland, stretching east to west from Denny Muir to Dumgoyne in Stirlingshire and overlooking Strathkelvin to the south.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: MacRusgail, Public domain.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Culcreuch Castle and Dundaff Castle, Stirling.
Culcreuch Castle
Castle
Photo: Richard Webb, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Culcreuch Castle is a Scottish castle close to the village of Fintry, near Loch Lomond. It had been the home of the Barons of Culcreuch since 1699. In the 1980s the castle was converted into a hotel, which it was run as until early 2020 when it was closed to the public by the American owners thus ending over 700 years of history.
Dundaff Castle, Stirling
Castle
Photo: Robert Murray, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Dundaff Castle, also known as Sir John de Graham Castle or Graham's Castle, is a ruined 12th century square motte and bailey castle in the Stirling council area, Scotland.
Loup of Fintry
Waterfall
Photo: Andrewmckie, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Loup of Fintry is a notable waterfall on the River Endrick around 2 miles to the east of Fintry in Scotland and 17 miles from Stirling, 10 miles from Denny. The total height of the waterfalls is 28.6 m Lowp or "Loup" means leap in Scots.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Kilsyth and Fintry.
Kilsyth
Photo: Excalibur, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Kilsyth is a town on Clydeside, historically part of Lanarkshire, in the Central Belt of Scotland. It's 15 miles northeast of Glasgow near the watershed between the Clyde and Forth river catchments, at a point where the natural lowland routes become pinched between the Lanarkshire moors, the abrupt Campsie Fells, and sucking bogs.
Fintry
Village
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Fintry is a small riverside village in Stirlingshire, central Scotland. It is located 16 miles south-west of Stirling and around 19 miles north of Glasgow.
Lennoxtown
Town
Photo: Dumgoyne, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Lennoxtown is a town in the East Dunbartonshire council area and the historic county of Stirlingshire, Scotland. The Campsie Fells are located to Lennoxtown's north. The town had a population of 4,094 at the 2011 UK census.
Campsie Fells
- Type: Region
- Description: mountain range in Scotland, UK
- Categories: mountain range, heath, and locality
- Location: Stirling, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
56.0502° or 56° 3′ 1″ northLongitude
-4.1485° or 4° 8′ 55″ westOpen location code
9C8Q3V22+3HOpenStreetMap ID
way 772225814OpenStreetMap feature
natural=heathOpenStreetMap feature
place=regionWikidata ID
Q1031632
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Venetian—“Campsie Fells” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Campsie Fells”
- Cebuano: “Campsie Fells”
- Dutch: “Campsie Fells”
- Egyptian Arabic: “كامبسى فيلز”
- French: “Campsie Fells”
- German: “Campsie Fells”
- Irish: “Monadh Chamaisidh”
- Irish: “Monadh Champsaidh”
- Italian: “Campsie Fells”
- Japanese: “キャンプシー・フェル”
- Ladin: “Campsie Fells”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Campsie Fells”
- Polish: “Campsie Fells”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Monadh Chamaisidh”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Monadh Champsaidh”
- Swedish: “Campsie Fells”
- Venetian: “Campsie Fells”
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