Sunset over the Campsie Hills

The Campsie hills in central Scotland, to the north of Glasgow, have long provided an easy escape for city folk.


I rarely blip them because they are not that interesting in the landscape where they compete with the more spectacular Trossachs and Highlands to the north but this evening with the winter sun setting over them they finally came into their own.


The name is taken from one of the individual hills in the range, called Campsie; meaning crooked fairy hill, from the Scottish Gaelic cam, meaning crooked, and sìth meaning fairy. Fells originate from the Old Norse word fjal, meaning hill.