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The National Library of Scotland has an excellent digital library of maps, and their website is www.nls.uk.

Previous Pentlands guidebooks

A number of guidebooks have been written about the Pentland Hills, mainly in the last century, and they are an eclectic mix. George Reith’s The Breezy Pentlands (1910) is a lovely blend of heritage and walking routes, with humour laced throughout. Pentland Walks with Their Literary and Historical Associations (Robert Cochrane, 1908) describes a series of routes combined with cultural background and details of the literary connections of the hills (this book formed the basis of DG Moir’s Pentland Walks, Their Literary and Historical Associations, published in 1977). William Anderson’s The Pentland Hills (1926) – not written as a guidebook but as an appreciation – makes interesting reading.

Probably the best known of the Pentlands guidebooks is Will Grant’s The Call of the Pentlands (1927), and another of Grant’s books, Pentland Days and Country Ways (1934), is an anthology of stories about and reflections on the hills.