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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.
South of Scotland may refer to: The southern portion of Scotland. Geography of Scotland; South of Scotland (Scottish Parliament electoral region) South of Scotland (European Parliament constituency) South of Scotland District (rugby union), a rugby union team
The main geographical divisions of Scotland. The Central Lowlands, sometimes called the Midland Valley or Central Valley, [1] is a geologically defined area of relatively low-lying land in southern Scotland. It consists of a rift valley between the Highland Boundary Fault to the north and the Southern Uplands Fault to the south. [2]
The Southern Upland Way is a 344-kilometre (214 mi) coast-to-coast long-distance footpath in southern Scotland. [2] The route links Portpatrick in the west and Cockburnspath in the east via the hills of the Southern Uplands. [1] The Way is designated as one of Scotland's Great Trails by NatureScot and is the longest of the 29 Great Trails. [1]
Southern Scots is the dialect (or group of dialects) of Scots spoken in the Scottish Borders counties of mid and east Dumfriesshire, Roxburghshire and Selkirkshire, [1] [2] with the notable exception of Berwickshire and Peeblesshire, which are, like Edinburgh, part of the SE Central Scots dialect area.
Scotland (Scots: Scotland; Scottish Gaelic: Alba) is a country that is part of the United Kingdom.It contains nearly one-third of the United Kingdom's land area, consisting of the northern part of the island of Great Britain and more than 790 adjacent islands, principally in the archipelagos of the Hebrides and the Northern Isles.
South of Scotland Enterprise is the development agency for southern Scotland, covering the council areas of Scottish Borders and Dumfries and Galloway. [3] It is an executive non-departmental public body of the Scottish Government , [ 1 ] and was established in 2020, following the passage of the South of Scotland Enterprise Act 2019 .
The Southern Uplands Fault (or occasionally Southern Upland Fault) [1] is a fault in Scotland that runs from Girvan (or more specifically from the Rhins of Galloway) to Dunbar on the East coast. It marks the southern boundary of the Scottish Midland Valley [ 2 ] and the northern margin of the Southern Uplands ; indeed it is recognised as a ...