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	Pentland Hills - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Pentland Hills is a range of hills to the south west of Edinburgh, Scotland.
		The hills span a number of council regions: City of Edinburgh, Midlothian, West Lothian, Scottish Borders and South Lanarkshire.
		Pentland Hills Regional Park was designated in 1984, it covers an area of 90 km² at the northern end of the hills.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Pentland_Hills (213 words)

	Pentland Firth - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Pentland Firth, which is actually more of a strait than a firth, separates the Orkney Islands from Caithness in the north of Scotland.
		The name is presumed to be a corruption of "Pettland's Firth", the fjord of Pictland, and is completely unrelated to the Pentland Hills near Edinburgh.
		The small Pentland Skerries group are in the east.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Pentland_Firth (743 words)

	Pentland Hills Regional Park/Discover/Pentland Hills
		The physical landscape of Pentland Hills consists of two spines of hills running south west from the city of Edinburgh.
		The agricultural influence on the Pentlands has been considerable and has taken over from the ancient woodland that once covered most of these lower reaches of the hills.
		The Pentlands has been an important water resource for the people of Edinburgh for centuries, with most of the reservoirs being built during the 19th Century.
	www.edinburgh.gov.uk /phrp/pentlandhills/ph.html (339 words)

	Pentland Hills - Caeketton & Allemuir Hill, Pentlands, Edinburgh - Hillwalking - ScottishSport.co.uk
		Pentland Hills - Caeketton and Allemuir Hill, Pentlands, Edinburgh - Hillwalking - ScottishSport.co.uk
		The Pentland Hills near Edinburgh are often overlooked by people, especially those who are out to "hit the big ones" and bag a few munros.
		But these hills are a secret that has been well kept by those "in the know" and are definitely worth a visit.
	www.scottishsport.co.uk /walking/caerketton.htm (679 words)

	Pentland Hills - Carnethy & Turnhouse Hill, Pentlands, Edinburgh - Hillwalking - ScottishSport.co.uk
		Pentland Hills - Carnethy and Turnhouse Hill, Pentlands, Edinburgh - Hillwalking - ScottishSport.co.uk
		The hills form part of the southern edge of the Pentlands, providing views south across Penicuik to the Lammermuir and Moorfoot Hills, and can be climbed either individually, together or in conjuction other hills such as Scald Law, West Kip and East Kip.
		From the summit of Carnethy Hill, continue east on the ridge path towards Turnhouse Hill (GR 213 627).
	www.scottishsport.co.uk /walking/carnethyhill.htm (606 words)

	Pentland Hills Regional Park Home Page
		The Pentland Hills Regional Park is a living, working landscape, which offers great opportunities to experience and enjoy the outdoors.
		Sculpted by glaciers and water, then shaped by people’s interactions over thousands of years, the Pentland Hills are valued by all.
		Ancient hill forts and riggs speak of a long established use of the area.
	www.edinburgh.gov.uk /phrp (399 words)

	Pictures of Midlothian, Pentlands Regional Park (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Its boundaries are the Moorfoot Hills and the Pentland Hills.
		Glencorse Reservoir is located in the Pentland Hills Regional Park and is the back-up water supply for Edinburgh, Man made, the Reservoir is possibly the only one in the world to have a church beneath the water.
		The hills surrounding the reservoir were ancient mountains which have been eroded over time and are now, one could say, only beautifully sculptured hills, but that would not do them justice.
	www.scotland-flavour.co.uk /midlothian.html (796 words)

	UK Photos: Photographs of the Pentland hills Scotland
		Scenic views of Boghall Burn, which is on a popular walking route and lies between Allermuir and Caerketton hill at the east end of the Pentland hills and is accessible form the A 702.
		Views from Caerketton hill which is at the east end of the Pentland hills over looking the city of Edinburgh.
		The Pentland hills project is an ongoing project that will be carried out over a period of time, cataloguing various locations and information throughout the Pentland Hills, including visitor attractions and hill walking.
	www.uk-photos-web.co.uk /gallery_pages/pentland.html (250 words)

	Friends of the Pentlands - Pentland Hills (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		About Us The Friends of the Pentlands Society seeks to act as a catalyst to promote the conservation, protection, and enhancement of the Pentland Hills, with particular emphasis upon recreational quality, public access, cultural heritage, landscape and biodiversity.
		On that occasion Dr Robin Aitken, a voluntary Pentland ranger, brought together a 'baker's dozen' of like-minded people who shared his enthusiasm to do something positive to protect and enhance the future of the Pentland Hills.
		To offer a programme of organised walks, which are open to both members and their friends to foster the enjoyment of healthy walking, appreciation of the environment and the enjoyment of the company of fellow walkers.
	myweb.tiscali.co.uk /pentlandfriends/aboutus.htm (411 words)

	Edinburgh Bicycle: Pentlands Loop (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		This circular route requires a reasonable level of fitness, as there are two hills to negotiate (one off-road, one on-road).
		The proximity of this route to the city is such that it is possible to drive to the start, do the route and be back in town within 2 hours ¡ a great way to unwind on a summer evening after work.
		At the top of the hill you will find a style that is a pretty good place to take in the view back down the path you have just travelled.
	www.edinburgh-bicycle.co.uk /routes/route_pentlandloop.html (575 words)

	Scotland Riding Lesson Edinburgh Icelandic Horses Pentland Hills Icelandics
		Pentland Hills Icelandics was asked to do a display at the 2005 Biggar Show.
		Pentland Hills Icelandics passed its inspection in the summer by the British Horse Society and is therefore now a BHS approved riding centre as well as being TRSS approved.
		Horses from Pentland Hills Icelandics recently took part in the launch of the "Gems of Midlothian", also attended by Tourism Minister Frank McAveety.
	www.phicelandics.co.uk /news.htm (845 words)

	Edinburgh Picturesque Notes - CHAPTER X. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The hills are close by across a valley: Kirk Yetton, with its long, upright scars visible as far as Fife, and Allermuir the tallest on this side with wood and tilled field running high upon their borders, and haunches all moulded into innumerable glens and shelvings and variegated with heather and fern.
		But hills and hill people are not easily sophisticated; and if you walk out here on a summer Sunday, it is as like as not the shepherd may set his dogs upon you.
		Of the Pentlands themselves, you see a field of wild heathery peaks with a pond gleaming in the midst; and to that side the view is as desolate as if you were looking into Galloway or Applecross.
	www.worldwideschool.org /library/books/geo/travel/EdingburghPicturesqueNotes/chap10.html (2311 words)

	Swanston.co.uk - About Swanston
		Situated where it is at the foot of the Pentland Hills, which hills have through the centuries, been a source of inspiration to famous authors and poets and adjacent to the Pentland Country Park and the Hillend Ski Centre, Swanston Farm is an ideal base for enjoying the surrounding countryside and the City of Edinburgh.
		Beyond the steading and the holiday cottages, a gentle walk up the hill takes you across a small stream to the historic Swanston Village with its’ old fashioned cottages set amongst flthorns and wild roses and where there is a bench in memory of the poet Edwin Muir, who often meditated here.
		The hills are mainly covered in grassland although one also finds juniper, harebell and gorse with many varieties of moss in the valleys.
	www.swanston.co.uk /aboutswanston.htm (364 words)

	Edinburgh - South of the city \| Footprint Guides
		Immediately south of Edinburgh, across the city bypass, are the wild and rugged Pentland Hills, great for a bracing Sunday walk, and the magical, mystical Rosslyn Chapel, with its cache of weird and wonderful secrets.
		South of the Braid Hills, beyond the City Bypass, are Edinburgh’s Pentland Hills, a range of serious hills, remote in parts, rising to almost 2,000 ft and which stretch some 16 miles from the outskirts of Edinburgh to Lanarkshire.
		On the northern slopes of the Pentlands is the village of Swanston, a huddle of 18th-century thatched, white-washed cottages.
	www.footprintguides.com /Edinburgh/South-of-the-city.php (520 words)

	Friends of the Pentlands - Pentland Hills (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		We are a new Society seeking individual and corporate members who share our aspirations for the future of the Pentland Hills.
		To Robert Louis Stevenson the Pentland Hills were 'The Hills of Home'.
		If you share our love of the Pentland Hills and would like to ensure that future generations can enjoy them as much as we can please visit the About Us page.
	myweb.tiscali.co.uk /pentlandfriends (143 words)

	The Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border - The Battle of Pentland Hills
		The Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border - The Battle of Pentland Hills
		We have observed the early antipathy mutually entertained by the Scottish Presbyterians and the house of Stuart.
		In this they were disappointed; and, being now diminished to half their numbers, they drew up on the Pentland Hills, at a place called Rullien Green.
	www.electricscotland.com /HISTORY/other/scott/pentland_hills.htm (914 words)

	F.A.Q. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		They were his own 'hills of home.' He studied much the literature of the Covenant, even to saying in one of his letters from far-away Samoa that his style was fashioned by Covenanter writers.
		It is evident that firesides in Pentland held so much of conversation about Christ and His claims that the merry minds of the young were spiritually impressed, and stilled to sober covenanting with Him.
		One of the prisoners of Pentland who through physical weakness had not been able to be with his friends at the time of the battle, was Hugh MacKail, a scholarly young minister of twenty-five years of age.
	www.freechurch.org /fair/fair2.htm (2250 words)

	The Scottish Chiefs - Chapter 14 - The Pentland Hills
		A dismal hue overspread the country; the thunder yet roared in distant peals, and the lightning came down in such vast sheets, that the carriers were often obliged to set down their burden, and cover their eyes to regain their sight.
		It is, only when the mind is at ease, that the body is delicate: all within her was too expectant of mental horrors, to notice the casual inconveniences of season or situation.
		The cavalcade with difficulty mounted the steps of a mountainous hill, where the storm raged so turbulently, that the men who carried the litter stopped, and told their lord, it would be impossible to proceed in the approaching darkness; they conjured him to look at the perpendicular ro
	www.electricscotland.com /History/domestic/chiefs/chapter14.htm (1579 words)

	MyClan.com : Armigerous Clan Pentland Home Page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The Sinclairs sold the barony of Pentland in 1633 to the Gibsones who were to hold the lands into the twentieth century.
		The Pentlands of that Ilk passed through an heiress to the Campbells, and the arms as recorded in the Lyon register now are quartered.
		All that remains of Pentland is the churchyard which contains an old family vault of the Gibsones and also the graves of many of the Covenanters who were slain at the Battle of Rullion Green in 1666.
	www.myclan.com /clans/Pentland_292 (269 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Edinburgh
		A.D. 620) when the fortress of Edwin's burgh was raised on a lofty spur of the Pentland Hills, overlooking the Firth of Forth, and established the Anglian dominion in the northern part of the Northumbrian Kingdom.
		Margaret's son, King David I, founded the Abbey of Holyrood, at the foot of the castle hill, 1128; but the town of Edinburgh for several centuries did not extend beyond the ridge sloping eastwards from the castle.
		In the middle of the fifteenth century Edinburgh became the real capital of Scotland, that is, the seat of the Parliament and the Government, as well as the residence of the kings, and the scene of many of the most important provincial councils which regulated the affairs of the Scottish Church.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/05284a.htm (1765 words)

	Friends of the Pentlands - Pentland Hills (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The raison d’être for that meeting was a willingness to take forward two specific objectives stated in the Pentland Hills Regional Park Integrated Management Strategy; viz, the wish to establish “an independent friends group” and the wish “to encourage wider participation by the public”.
		The Society seeks to act as a catalyst to promote the conservation, protection and enhancement of the Pentland Hills, with particular emphasis on recreational quality, public access, cultural heritage, landscape and biodiversity.
		(a) The conservation, protection and enhancement of the Pentland Hills are for the benefit of present and future generations.
	myweb.tiscali.co.uk /pentlandfriends/2006plan.htm (1449 words)

	Overview of Pentland Hills (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		A range of hills extending 16 miles (25 km) southwestwards from a point 3 miles (5 km) southwest of the centre of the city of Edinburgh, the Pentland Hills extend across the City of Edinburgh, West Lothian, Midlothian, South Lanarkshire and the Scottish Borders Council Areas.
		Comprising 400 million-year-old sandstone and volcanic rocks of Devonian age, the hills rise to a height of 579m (1898 feet) at Scald Law, a mile (1.5 km) northeast of Penicuik.
		The West Water, Baddinsgill, North Esk, Loganlea, Threipmuir, Harlaw and Glencorse reservoirs supply water to the city of Edinburgh and in 1984 the area was designated as a regional park with headquarters at Boghall Farm.
	www.geo.ed.ac.uk /scotgaz/features/featurefirst376.html (179 words)

	BBC News \| SCOTLAND \| Farmers switch to direct approach
		Nine farmers in the Pentland Hills, which mark the capital's southern fringe, are taking their lamb and beef directly to the customer.
		The producers, who are using the Pentland Hills for their brand name, have won the backing of local authorities in the area.
		"The Pentland Hills offer a variety of recreational facilities, and the fact that farmers are now providing customers with high quality produce direct from their premises enhances the overall diversity the hills can offer.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/scotland/1494436.stm (425 words)

	Defence Estates Website - Access/Recreation - Walks On MoD Land (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The MOD estate at Castlelaw and Dreghorn is located within the Pentland Hills Regional Park extending to some 775 hectares.
		A variety of habitat types are to be found on the estate ranging from woodlands, rough grassland and gorse scrub, culminating in open heather moorland in the upland areas of the hill range.
		From Castlelaw Hill Fort, gently climb Castlelaw Hill and traverse the eastern slope.
	www.defence-estates.mod.uk /access/walks/walks/walks_castlelaw.htm (784 words)

	Scotsman.com News - Scotland - Multi-million plan for new base in hills
		It will serve as the headquarters for the Pentland Hills Regional Park, but also include interpretative facilities for visitors to Midlothian and a teaching room for schools.
		Local farmers have also expressed an interest in using the new building to sell produce from the Pentland Hills, which is a popular spot for anglers, walkers and mountain bikers from across the Lothians.
		The park was created to protect and enhance the landscape and wildlife of the Pentland Hills, which were under pressure in the mid-1980s from increasing numbers of visitors.
	news.scotsman.com /scotland.cfm?id=1355192004 (842 words)

	Patieshill Farm Bed and Breakfast - panoramic views from the Pentland Hills, a working farm, country rambles, 20 ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Patieshill Farmhouse is a real working hill sheep farm where guests can witness the activities of the sheep farmer's calendar.
		It nestles into the Pentland Hills where guests are free to wander at their leisure--some choosing to climb to the top of Patieshill (1700 feet above sea level) before their hearty breakfast.
		The views from the farm are absolutely magnificent, a panorama of heather-clad hills, moors, and ever-changing skies where the lapwing and skylark soar.
	www.patieshill.co.uk (261 words)

	Scotsman.com News - Scotland - Edinburgh - Thrills on the hills as beauty spot reaches new heights in sex guide
		For the hills have been given star billing by a new guide to the best places in Britain for enjoying outdoor sex.
		Ms Loney visited the Pentlands and other spots across the country with her landscape gardener boyfriend Daniel Madden, 25.
		But it was the beauty and seclusion offered by the 22,000-acre Pentland Hills Regional Park, with its variety of reservoirs, wetlands and woodlands, that appealed to the couple.
	news.scotsman.com /edinburgh.cfm?id=152682005 (862 words)

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