Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for Bishop's Hill

Bishop's Hill, a hill on the mutual border of Kinrossshire and Fife, but mainly within Kinross-shire. It occupies the NE quarter of Portmoak parish; rises in the eastern vicinity of Belgedie and Kinnesswood villages; culminates 2½ miles NE of the north-eastern shore of Loch Leven; attains there an altitude of 1292 feet above sea-level; projects a spur into Fife, with a summit altitude of 1060 feet; and is adjoined, on the N, by West Lomond Hill.


(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: Portmoak ScoP       Fife ScoCnty       Kinross Shire ScoCnty

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