2022
NT0963 : Looking West from Corston Hill
taken 2 years ago, 3 km from Oakbank, West Lothian, Scotland
Looking West from Corston Hill
The picture was taken from just West of the summit of Corston Hill, which is the last (or first) hill in the Pentlands round here. The Pentland hills run in a SouthWesterly direction for about 15 miles from a starting point on the countryside-side of the Edinburgh bypass at Edinburgh's SouthWest, and get smaller and wilder the further out from the city you go. Corston Hill and Auchinoon Hill (just South of here) often get overlooked as they are on the other side of the main A70 road, which is generally regarded as a Pentland boundary. These two hills, which make up what could be described as a NorthWest spur of the hill range, both provide extensive views to the main bulk of the Pentlands and Edinburgh, and are well worth exploring.
There is a good-sized cairn on the broad ridge to the West of the hilltop which is just right of centre in the picture. But oddly there is no cairn at the summit, just a trig point. The Five Sisters shale bings, which are located about a mile North of the village of West Calder, can be seen just below the sun.
Corston Hill is actually quite long and this is most evident when viewing it from the North. As a clearly defined landmass I reckon it stretches for about a mile and a half.
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