Summary
THE centre of Scotland, with its easy access to stunning and challenging mountain scenery, has drawn lovers of the outdoors for generations. Sir Walter Scott's journeys in the Trossachs inspired works such as The Lady of the Lake, and before him these mountains were a place of refuge for Rob Roy MacGregor. Further east, Queen Victoria enjoyed the views over Loch Tummel and Shakespeare used Birnam Hill (a Marilyn) in Macbeth.
The area described here is not a traditional geographic region, in that it encompasses much of Perthshire and some of the Grampians, as well as Fife and the Ochils. It does, however, comprise the mountains most Lowlanders first encounter when starting to explore Scotland's peaks.See the full content of this document
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Middle Ground
In the far east of this area lie the Lomond Hills of Fife, with the Marilyns of East and West Lomond in view from as far north as the summit of Lochnagar on Deeside and as far south as the beaches of East Lothian.
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