Leadhills, a village of Lanarkshire, the highest in Scotland, being about 1300 feet above sea-level, on Glengonner Water, 45 miles SSW. of Edinburgh. Allan Ramsay was a native. Lead has been mined here for at least six hundred years, the annual output ranging between 700 and 1800 tons of lead. Pop. 998. See Irving's Lanarkshire (1864).
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