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• If you are looking for hills, rivers, castles ... or pretty much anything other than the "places" where people live and lived, you need to look in our collection of Historical Gazetteers. This contains the complete text of three gazetteers published in the late 19th century — over 90,000 entries. Although there are no descriptive gazetteer entries for placenames exactly matching your search term (other than those already linked to "places"), the following entries mention "LEADHILLS":

  Place name	County	Entry	Source
  Brow	Lanarkshire	Brow, one of the lead mines at Leadhills, in Crawford parish, Lanarkshire.	Groome
  Crawford	Lanarkshire	Leadhills, is traversed for 12¼ miles by the maim trunk of the Caledonian,. which here attains its summit level	Groome
  Crawfordjohn	Lanarkshire	Leadhills, and 4 W of its post-town and station, Abington, this being 43¼ miles SW of Edinburgh. At it are a post	Groome
  Dumfriesshire	Dumfries Shire	Leadhills south-eastwards by Moffat, across Eskdalemuir by Langholm to the English border. In texture it varies from a dolerite	Groome
  Enterkin	Dumfries Shire Lanarkshire	Leadhills. Thence it runs 5¼ miles south-south-westward, till at Enterkinfoot (280 feet), midway between Sanquhar and Thornhill	Groome
  Glengonner Water	Dumfries Shire Lanarkshire	Leadhill village, and over the last 2 ½ miles it traces the Crawfordjohn border. Its mineral wealth is noticed under	Groome
  Lanark	Lanarkshire	Leadhills, and Lanark-St Leonards, and the chapelries of Haywood, Carstairs Junction, and Kirkfieldbank. Pop. (1871) 38,103, (1881) 40, 806, of whom	Groome
  Lanarkshire	Lanarkshire	Leadhills - which is itself 1307 feet above sea-level, and the highest inhabited land in Scotland - are Rake Law (1620), Wellgrain	Groome
  Leadhills	Lanarkshire	Leadhills, a mining village in Crawford parish, S Lanarkshire, on Glengonner Water, 1½ mile NNE of Wanlockhead, 5 miles	Groome
  Leadhills	Lanarkshire	Leadhills , vil., Crawford par., and quoad sacra par., partly also in Crawfordjohn par., Lanarkshire - par., pop. 1081; vil., 5 miles	Bartholomew
  Lowthers, The (or Leadhills)	Dumfries Shire Lanarkshire	Leadhills ), mountain-range, in S. of Lanarkshire and N. of Dumfriesshire, reaching in Lowther Hill and Green Lowther alts, of 2377 and 2403 ft.	Bartholomew
  Minnick Water	Dumfries Shire Lanarkshire	goes up all its vale to Wanlockhead, leading thence to Leadhills and Upper Strathclyde.— Ord. Sur., sh. 15, 1864.	Groome
  Muirkirk	Ayrshire	Leadhills and Wanlockhead alone excepted, it is the seat of an extensive iron manufacture, and was brought into existence through	Groome
  Wanlockhead	Dumfries Shire	mile SW. of Leadhills and 8½ NE. of Sanquhar, pop. 788; P.O.; the lead mines were opened about 1680.	Bartholomew
  Wanlockhead	Dumfries Shire	Leadhills, 6½ miles WSW of Elvanfoot station, 8½ SSW of Abington, and 8½ ENE of the town	Groome

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