Baddinsgill Reservoir

#5402 among destinations in the United Kingdom

Nature, Natural attraction, Lake

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Baddinsgill Reservoir is a small reservoir in the Scottish Borders area of Scotland close to Carlops, West Linton, and the boundary with Midlothian. It is close to Baddinsgill House. The Lyne Water is dammed to form the reservoir, not the Baddinsgill Burn, which joins the Lyne Water further south, below the reservoir. The earth dam was faced with concrete blocks. In time these eroded and they were capped with 100 millimetres of tarmac. ()

Elevation: 1083 ft a.s.l.Coordinates: 55°47'16"N, 3°23'29"W

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Baddinsgill Reservoir – popular in the area (distance from the attraction)

Nearby attractions include: Glencorse Reservoir, Penicuik House, Loganlea Reservoir, Threipmuir Reservoir.

7.4 miNE
Nature, Natural attraction, Lake
Glencorse Reservoir
188 min walk • Glencorse Reservoir is a reservoir in Midlothian, Scotland, UK, two miles west of Glencorse, in the Pentland Hills. It is retained by an earth dam, and it was built between 1820 and 1824 by James Jardine to provide water for the mills of Auchendinny, Milton Bridge and Glencorse, and to supply drinking water to the citizens of Edinburgh.
5.9 miNE
Historical place, Architecture, Cafe
Penicuik House, Penicuik
150 min walk • Penicuik House survives as the shell of a formerly grand estate house in Penicuik, Midlothian, Scotland. The 18th-century palladian mansion was built on the site of an earlier house by Sir James Clerk, 3rd Baronet.
5.8 miNE
Nature, Natural attraction, Lake
Loganlea Reservoir
148 min walk • Loganlea Reservoir is a small reservoir in the Pentland Hills, Midlothian, Scotland, UK. The Logan Burn connects the reservoir with Glencorse Reservoir.
5.8 miNE
Lake
Threipmuir Reservoir, Edinburgh
149 min walk • Threipmuir Reservoir is a reservoir in the City of Edinburgh Council area, Scotland, UK. It is situated to the south of Edinburgh at the base of the Pentland Hills, two miles south of Balerno.
2.2 miS
Nature, Natural attraction, Lake
West Water Reservoir
57 min walk • West Water Reservoir is an artificial reservoir in the Pentland Hills, Scottish Borders, 3 kilometres west of West Linton, and 26 kilometres south west of Edinburgh.
6.3 miSW
Park
Little Sparta
162 min walk • Little Sparta is a garden at Dunsyre in the Pentland Hills in South Lanarkshire, Scotland, created by artist and poet Ian Hamilton Finlay and his wife Sue Finlay, since 1966. The 5-acre Arcadian garden includes concrete poetry in sculptural form, polemic, and philosophical aphorisms, together with sculptures and two temples.
5.1 miNE
Nature, Natural attraction, Hill
Scald Law
131 min walk • Scald Law is a hill in Midlothian, Scotland. At 579 metres it is the highest of the Pentland Hills. The hill is composed of Devonian volcanic rock.
4.9 miNE
Forts and castles
Bavelaw Castle, Edinburgh
127 min walk • Bavelaw Castle is a historic house in the City of Edinburgh Council area, Scotland. It is north of Hare Hill in the Pentland Hills, four miles west of Penicuik, and two miles south of Balerno, above Threipmuir Reservoir.
3.8 miNW
Forts and castles
Cairns Castle
96 min walk • Cairns Castle is a ruined keep, dating from the 15th century. It is located on the northern slope of the Pentland Hills, around 6.5 miles south west of Balerno, at the south west end of Harperrig Reservoir, in West Lothian, Scotland.
1.8 miSW
Park
Pentland Hills
45 min walk • The Pentland Hills are a range of hills southwest of Edinburgh, Scotland. The range is around twenty miles in length, and runs southwest from Edinburgh towards Biggar and the upper Clydesdale.
3.8 miNW
Nature, Natural attraction, Lake
Harperrig Reservoir
98 min walk • Harperrig Reservoir is a reservoir in West Lothian, Scotland, to the north of the Pentland Hills, four miles south of Mid Calder. The Water of Leith flows through it, and nearby are Harlaw Reservoir and Threipmuir Reservoir.