doi:10.1080/00369224408735268Arthur GeddesScottish Geographical Journal
a range of hills on the boundary between England and Scotland: highest point, 2,676 feet (816 meters). Discover More Example Sentences The Cheviot Hills glittered in the west; it was the kind good-bye of our own dear England. From Project Gutenberg What should I speak of the Cheviot Hill...
Built up during the 1930s, ‘40s and ‘50s, the area was named by two developers who were inspired by the original Cheviot Hills of Scotland. The Scottish theme is echoed in its street names, such as Dumfries, Haddington, Wigtown, Troon. ...
“I have travelled in the Highlands of Scotland, and have made long marches there without more fatigue than is usually felt, but I must aver that a twelve or thirteen miles stage, such as of this day, has fatigued me more than upwards of three times its distance at home.” The village...
Get out of the cities and towns in West Virginia into the remote hills and hollers where the roads dead-end and it’s a step back in time. Here live descendants of pioneer families who came from Scotland, Ireland, England and Wales in the 17th and 18th centuries. More people in the mo...
Edzell Boer War Memorial at the High Street, Edzell, Scotland The memorial takes the form of a Celtic cross set on a tapering shaft, plinth and base and inscribed, “To the memory of gallant soldiers belonging to Edzell & District who fell in the Great Boer War 1899-1900-...
“You shouldn’t have been born in the first place!” You were too far away; you wouldn’t be able to stop her. But as she was about to kill him, she paused, her eyes glistening with something you couldn’t decipher. “Master!” Sebastian was frantic. The next thing you knew, his...
"I don't mind it. I've always been an outsider. Even in London. If I returned to Scotland, I'd feel a complete foreigner." Doig was born in Edinburgh in 1959; he lived in Trinidad from the age of two to seven, and then in Canada until he was 19 (his father was a peripatetic...
The Chiltern Hills span the area between Wessex in the South West and Hitchin in Hertfordshire - across much of Buckinghamshire and Bedfordshire. These rolling hills feature swathes of habitat-rich grassland, broken up by ancient beech, ash and box woodland....
Nandi Hills is a hill station in Karnataka State, India. This range of Nandi on the craggy hills holds the shimmering Amrita Sarovar Lake and offers walks of sylvan beauty. It is a popular health resort today.