Corstorphine Hill

Corstorphine Hill is a landmark visible from all over Edinburgh, a richly wooded oasis only three miles from the centre of the city.

Humans first made their mark on its landscape over 5,000 years ago, and its residents have included an early landscape gardener and a pioneering woman doctor. Among its enthusiastic visitors were some of Scotland’s greatest writers and artists.

The hill has inspired many writers to extol it in verse and prose. As the early travel writer John Carr claimed in 1807, it still can offer ‘the finest views the eye can feast on’.

This is the first book to draw together the disparate threads in the history of the hill, in the context of the people who have admired and lived on it. It will be welcomed by all those with an interest in the landscape and history of Edinburgh.