Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for Benvalla or Penvalla

Benvalla or Penvalla, a mountain in Stobo parish, Peeblesshire, flanking the NE side of the upper part of Hopehead Burn, 2½ miles NW of Stobo Castle. It has an altitude of 1764 feet above sea-level.


(F.H. Groome, Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland (1882-4); © 2004 Gazetteer for Scotland)

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a mountain"   (ADL Feature Type: "mountains")
Administrative units: Stobo Parish       Peebles Shire County
Place names: BENVALLA     |     BENVALLA OR PENVALLA     |     PENVALLA

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