Blackford, a hill on the S border of St Cuthbert's parish, Edinburghshire, in the southern vicinity of Morningside, and 2 miles S by E of Edinburgh Castle. Exceeding 400 feet above sea-level, it commands a magnificent view; southward, of the Braid and Pentland Hills; northward, of Edinburgh city, the Firth of Forth, and the coast of Fife, backed by the Lomond and the Ochil hills, and by the frontier Grampians-a prospect Scott described in some of the noblest lines of Marmion.
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