Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for Newlaw

Newlaw, a hill in Rerwick parish, Kirkcudbrightshire, 1¼ mile NW of Dundrennan, and 3½ miles ESE of Kirkcudbright. It has an altitude of 599 feet above sea-level, and commands a very extensive and magnificent view of the Kirkcudbrightshire seaboard and the Irish Sea, horizoned by the Isle of Man and the Irish Mountains of Mourne.—Ord. Sur., sh. 5, 1857.


(F.H. Groome, Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland (1882-4); © 2004 Gazetteer for Scotland)

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Feature Description: "a hill"   (ADL Feature Type: "mountains")
Administrative units: Kirkcudbrightshire ScoCnty

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