Lucklawhill
Coordinates: 56°23′15″N 2°55′44″W / 56.387636°N 2.928801°W
Lucklawhill is a hamlet one mile (1.6 km) northwest of the village of Balmullo in Fife, Scotland. Historically, Lucklawhill belonged to the Logie parish.[1]
Lucklaw Hill, 190 metres (620 ft) above sea level, marks the eastern extremity of the Ochil Hills. The hill is composed of feldspar porphyry, its summit of compacted feldspar.[1] Late 18th and early 19th century authors wrote that Lucklaw Hill was an ancient hunting park belonging to the Kings of Scotland.[2][3]
References
- 1 2 Westwood's Parochial Directory for the Counties of Fife and Kinross. 1862. pp. 166-167.
- ↑ The Traveller's guide through Scotland, and its islands, Volume 2. 1814. John Thomson and Company, Edinburgh. p. 51.
- ↑ The Scots magazine vol. 59. p. 896.
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