Leadhills

Leadhills
Main Street, Leadhills
Leadhills is located in South Lanarkshire
Leadhills
Leadhills
Location within South Lanarkshire
Population315 
OS grid referenceNS885150
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CountryScotland
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
Post townBiggar
Postcode districtML12
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55°24′58″N 3°45′46″W / 55.4162°N 3.7629°W / 55.4162; -3.7629
Hillend Summit, Glengonnar Station, 1,498 feet (457 m) ASL.
Green pyromorphite microcrystals cover the vuggy, quartz-rich matrix. Seams of tiny cerussite crystals and crusts of contrasting, powder-blue caledonite round out this very rich lead ore specimen from an old Leadhills mine. Size: 7.5 x 5.4 x 3.2 cm.
Glengonnar Water near Leadhills

Leadhills, originally settled for the accommodation of miners, is a village in South Lanarkshire, Scotland, 5+3⁄4 miles (9.3 km) WSW of Elvanfoot. The population in 1901 was 835. It was originally known as Waterhead.[1]

It is the second highest village in Scotland, the highest being neighbouring Wanlockhead, 2 miles (3 kilometres) south.[2] It is near the source of Glengonnar Water, a tributary of the River Clyde.

  1. ^ Sinclair, John (1799). The Statistical Account of Scotland: Drawn Up from the Communications of the Ministers of the Different Parishes. Vol. 21. Edinburgh: William Creech. p. 98.
  2. ^ Phoebe Keane (17 April 2019). "Where is Scotland's highest village?". BBC. Retrieved 17 April 2019.