Carlops
Carlops (Scottish Gaelic: Leum na Caillich) is a small village in the Pentland Hills, within the Scottish Borders area of Scotland, close to the boundary with Midlothian. It lies between West Linton and Penicuik.
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The Carlins Lowp
The village was founded in 1784 and developed cotton weaving, coalmining and limestone mining.
The name derives from "Witches' Leap" (Scots: "Carlins Lowp") as near the south of the village there are two exposed rock faces about 20 metres in height facing each other with a similar distance between them. Folklore maintained that witches would leap from one face to the other, over the chasm, for entertainment of an evening.
Notable Residents
- C. T. R. Wilson (1869-1959), winner of the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1927, retired to Carlops and died there in 1959.
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