Bataille de Rullion Green

La bataille de Rullion Green dans les Pentland Hills, à Lothian, en Écosse, le 28 novembre 1666 fut le point culminant de la brève insurrection des Pentland (15–28 novembre 1666). Au moins 3 000 hommes de l'Armée royale écossaise, menés par Tam Dalyell of the Binns s'opposèrent à quelque 900 rebelles covenantaires. L'insurrection des Pentland se produit dans le contexte d'une longue campagne menée par le gouvernement pour imposer l'épiscopalisme en Écosse. Le soulèvement commence à St. John’s Town of Dalry, lorsque les troupes s'en prennent à un homme âge qui n'avait pas payé l'amende qui lui avait été infligée pour n'avoir pas assisté à l'office religieux approuvé par le gouvernement. Quatre covenantaires, s'interposent, et sont rejoints par la population locale, qui désarme les soldats. Robert McClellan de Barscobe mène le soulèvement ; il réunit quelques hommes à Dalry, les mène à Balmaclellan où, après une escarmouche avec les troupes, il rassemble d'autres hommes. McClellan les mène à Dumfries, où ils capturent le commandant de la place, le général Turner, à 5h30 du matin, en chemise de nuit, dans son logement de Whitesands. McClellan, aidé par Neilson de Corsock, emmène sa troupe jusqu'à Ayrshire, puis Lanarkshire, et de là à Colinton près d'Édimbourg, dans le but de présenter leur pétition au Parlement. Beaucoup désertent le groupe à cause du mauvais temps, du piètre état des routes, et des nouvelles reçues de Colinton, selon lesquelles ils ne devaient pas s'attendre à un accueil favorable à Édimbourg. Au départ, de 3 000 hommes, la troupe diminue de moitié en arrivant à Colinton, et se disperse petit à petit jusqu'à Galloway. Parmi les rebelles, des soldats professionnels ainsi que de simples citoyens étaient commandés par le colonel James Wallace d'Auchens.

Le général Tam Dalyell of the Binns, présent à Currie avec des troupes, se dirige vers les Pentland Hills pour affronter les rebelles. Les survivants furent traités avec cruauté : 15 d'entre eux, dont Neilson de Corsock, furent pendus, traînés et mis en quart, et plusieurs, dont deux garçons de dix-huit ans, subirent la torture des brodequins. Le champ de bataille fait actuellement l'objet de fouilles pour être inventorié et protégé par l'office Historic Scotland.

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Battle of Rullion Green

The Battle of Rullion Green took place on 28 November 1666, near the Pentland Hills, in Midlothian, Scotland. It was the only significant battle of the Pentland Rising, a brief revolt by Covenanter dissidents against the Scottish government. Sparked by opposition to the restoration of episcopalianism in the Church of Scotland, a Covenanter army under Colonel James Wallace was defeated by a government force led by Tam Dalyell of the Binns. While casualties were relatively light, between 40 and 50 Covenanters were killed and up to 85 prisoners taken, many of whom were alleged to have been tortured. 36 were executed and others transported to Barbados, while unrest continued over the next two decades, culminating in the extended period of repression from 1679 to 1688 known as The Killing Time.

Glencorse Reservoir

Glencorse Reservoir is a reservoir in Midlothian, Scotland, 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. The dam is 23.5 metres (77 ft) at its highest point, one of the tallest in Britain when it was constructed, and was built at a point where a spur of rock narrowed the channel of the Glencorse Burn, which caused great difficulties in its construction. The gravel bed on which the burn flowed was up to 16.2 metres (53 ft) deep and when this was removed to create a clay-puddle dyke, the hill on the south side collapsed. The reservoir is the property of Scottish Water. The reservoir was built to provide water to compensate the mills at Glencorse, Milton Bridge and Auchendinny and to ensure a supply of drinking water to Edinburgh through a cast-iron pipe which took water to two small reservoirs in the city, at Castlehill and near George Heriot's School. The reservoir has an area of 19.3 hectares (48 acres). A Water Treatment Works was opened at Glencorse in 2012 to replace aged facilities at Alnwickhill and Fairmilehead and treat water from Talla, Fruid and Megget reservoirs. In 2019, Glencorse Water Treatment Works was reported to have the capacity to supply up to 175 million litres of water per day and was supplying water to up to 450,000 customers in parts of West Lothian and Edinburgh. Beneath the surface of the reservoir are the remains of St Catherine's of the Hopes, a 13th century chapel.

Carnethy Hill

Carnethy Hill, the second highest of the Pentland Hills, is a hill 3 miles (5 km) north-west of Penicuik, Scotland. It lends its name to the Carnethy 5 hill race held annually since 1971, and the Carnethy Hill Running Club. Loganlea Reservoir lies on the northwest flank of the hill.

Castle Law

Castle Law is a hill south west of Fairmilehead in the Pentland Hills in Midlothian, Scotland. It is best known for the Iron Age hill fort on its slopes.

Loganlea Reservoir

Loganlea Reservoir is a small reservoir in the Pentland Hills, Midlothian, Scotland, UK. The Logan Burn connects the reservoir with Glencorse Reservoir.