Elsrickle

Elsrickle is a village in South Lanarkshire, Scotland. It lies on Blackmount Hill which is on the end of the Pentland Hills. An elrick is an old place name associated with hunting. Large animals in the high ground are chased by dogs to locations where the ground slopes more steeply so that the animals are likely to fall at which point they can be killed off by awaiting hunters. It is an ancient technique also used by the native Americans. Examination of the topography of Elsrickle does not contradict this hypothesis.

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Settlements in South Lanarkshire

Towns	Biggar Blantyre Bothwell Cambuslang Carluke East Kilbride Hamilton Larkhall Lanark Lesmahagow Rutherglen Strathaven Uddingston

Villages and hamlets	Abington Allanton Ashgill Auchengray Auchenheath Auldhouse Blackwood Braidwood Carnwath Carstairs Junction Carstairs Village Cartland Chapelton Coalburn Coulter Crawford Crawfordjohn Crossford Dalserf Dolphinton Douglas Dunsyre Elsrickle Forth Garrion Bridge Glassford Jackton Kilncadzow Kirkfieldbank Kirkmuirhill Law Leadhills New Lanark Newbigging Nerston Pettinain Quarter Quothquan Ravenstruther Rigside Roberton Rosebank Sandford Stonehouse Symington Tarbrax Thankerton Thorntonhall Tillietudlem Wiston Woolfords Yieldshields

List of places in South Lanarkshire

Coordinates: 55°40′N 3°29′W / 55.667°N 3.483°W / 55.667; -3.483

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