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Lammermuir Hills

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Lammermuir Hills (lămərmyr`, lăm`ərmyr), range of hills, East Lothian and Scottish Borders, SE Scotland. Meikle Says Law (1,749 ft/533 m) is the highest point. Sheep are grazed in the hills.


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The grounds, at the foot of the Lammermuir Hills, 21 miles from Edinburgh, was bought in the 1970s by the late Italian- American composer Gian Carlo Menotti and is currently owned by his son Francis.
In The Little Ice Age Fagan explains, "In the thirteenth century, shepherds complained about the encroaching cultivation of prized grazing range, and on the summits of southeastern Scotland's Lammermuir Hills, 320 meters above sea level.
Before she died in 1702, she purchased the estate of Lethington, south of Haddington, in the Lammermuir Hills, of East Lothian, and in memory of her title as Duchess of Lennox, she requested the estate's name to be changed to Lennoxlove.
 
 
 
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