Ruin above Hillhead

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The photograph on this page of Ruin above Hillhead by Anne Burgess as part of the Geograph project.

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Ruin above Hillhead

Image: © Anne Burgess Taken: 16 Nov 2015

A look at the first edition of the six-inch Ordnance Survey map, published in 1873, shows that these are the ruins of one of half a dozen crofts or farms, all of which have now vanished except Hillhead of Frendraught itself.

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Image Location

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Latitude
57.471913
Longitude
-2.646554