Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for Blacklaw or Mount Cameron

Blacklaw or Mount Cameron, a small eminence in East Kilbride parish, Lanarkshire, ¾ mile SE of East Kilbride village. A commodious dwelling-house on it was the residence of Mrs Cameron, a high-born lady who manifested such zeal for the cause of Jacobitism in 1745 as made her famous throughout Great Britain. Two seams of coal, respectively 3 and 2 feet thick, underlie the eminence.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a small eminence"   (ADL Feature Type: "mountains")
Administrative units: East Kilbride ScoP       Lanarkshire ScoCnty
Place names: BLACKLAW     |     BLACKLAW OR MOUNT CAMERON     |     MOUNT CAMERON

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