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Southern Uplands and other geographical areas of Scotland The hills around Durisdeer from the A702 road Looking east across Nithsdale to the Lowther Hills – from Cairnkinna in the Scaur Hills Grey Mare's Tail in the Moffat Hills from the Bodesbeck Ridge in the Ettrick Hills Source of the River Clyde where the Daer Water meets the Potrail Water From Hart Fell looking west to the Devil's Beef Tub.
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The Manor Hills, also known as the Tweedsmuir Hills, are a range of hills south of Peebles in the Scottish Borders, one of the ranges which collectively form the Southern Uplands. They are separated from the Moffat Hills by the Talla Reservoir , Megget Reservoir and St. Mary's Loch , the Moorfoot Hills by the A72 and the Culter Hills in South ...
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An interesting feature on the mountain is the presence of several large partly buried granite boulders at about 800 m on the broad west ridge. [5] They are glacial erratics, but the exact mechanism is unclear that has brought them to rest close to the highest point of the Southern Uplands and over 200 m higher than any currently occurring granite in the Galloway Hills.
The Galloway Hills are part of the Southern Uplands of Scotland, and form the northern boundary of western Galloway.They lie within the bounds of the Galloway Forest Park, an area of some 300 square miles (800 km 2) of largely uninhabited wild land, managed by Forestry and Land Scotland.
There are three main geographical sub-divisions: the Highlands and Islands is a diverse area which lies to the north and west of the Highland Boundary Fault; the Central Lowlands is a rift valley mainly comprising Palaeozoic formations; and the Southern Uplands, which lie south of the Southern Uplands Fault, are largely composed of Silurian ...
Cairnsmore of Carsphairn is a hill in the Carsphairn and Scaur Hills range, part of the Southern Uplands of Scotland. An alternative name, rarely used nowadays, is Cairnsmore of Deugh . It is the highest hill in the range, and its summit is just under six kilometres ( 3 + 1 ⁄ 2 mi) northeast of Carsphairn village as the crow flies , in the ...