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Scotland’s capital city is stunning at street level but when it comes to appreciating it on a wider scale, heading to the top of its Seven Hills is the best way. Corstorphine is Edinburgh’s westernmost hill, and is cloaked in woodland with a tower at the summit. It’s one of the city’s biggest parks and has plenty going on under the boughs of its trees.
The summit tower is a memorial to Sir Walter Scott, the Scottish writer and historian, and known variously as the Scott Tower, Clermiston Tower or the Corstorphine Hill Tower. It’s sometimes open to the public and enjoys panoramic city views from the top.
Explore one of Edinburgh’s magnificent Seven Hills
The hill rises out of the city’s western suburbs as a north-south running ridge and it’s a designated nature reserve. In typical Edinburgh fashion, there are several golf courses and a couple of castles dotted around its perimeter, whilst the zoo encroaches on the hill’s southern end.
The woodland is criss-crossed with trails and it’s well worth exploring wider than just the summit as the forest creates sudden viewpoints in many places, each with a different city view. From the south of the hill, you can enjoy magnificent views to Arthur’s Seat. The paths have a variety of terrains, from steep, rooty and rocky sections to wider, earthen trails that can get muddy.
No matter what time of year you explore Corstorphine Hill, you’ll be greeted with the tranquil beauty of the woodlands and the glorious, snatched views of the city and even the Firth of Forth.
The Corstorphine Hill Tower (also known as Clermiston Tower or the Scott Tower) is situated at the top of the hill at 531 feet (161 metres) above sea level. It was built as a memorial to Sir Walter Scott in 1871, on the 100 year anniversary of his death.
It's irregularly opened to the public in the summer months as from the top there are incredible views to be had over the city.
Read more at: corstorphinehill.org.uk/about-the-hill.html
6 de fevereiro de 2020
The hill becomes very busy after midday so morning is the best time to visit
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Corstorphine Hill is a designated Local Nature Reserve and a Regionally Important Geological and Geomorphologic Site. We would ask you not to: light fires, dig up and remove plants, undertake any act which disturbs wildlife, ride bicycles in a fashion which would cause erosion or prevents other user of the hill from enjoying the amenity, nor build any form of structure.
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Localização:Wallyford, Edimburgo, Lothian, Escócia, Reino Unido