{{Short description|Hill in Midlothian, Scotland}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} {{Use British English|date=March 2025}} {{Infobox mountain | name = Scald Law | image = Scald Law.jpg | image_caption = Scald Law as seen from the northeast | elevation_m = 579 | elevation_ref = | prominence = {{c.|{{convert|312|m}}}} | prominence_ref = | listing = Marilyn, Hardy | location = Midlothian, Scotland | coordinates = {{coord|55.8357|N|3.2901|W|region:GB_scale:20000_type:mountain|display=inline,title}} | grid_ref_UK = NT191610 | topo = OS ''Landranger'' 65 | easiest_route = Hike }}
'''Scald Law''' is a hill in Midlothian, Scotland. At {{convert|579|m}} it is the highest of the Pentland Hills. The hill is composed of Devonian volcanic rock.
==Etymology== The origin of the name is uncertain. Some sources say it derives from the Scots word ''scawed'', meaning "bare."<ref>[http://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/oswebsite/freefun/didyouknow/placenames/scotsglossary-n-y.html Glossary of Scots origins of place names in Britain (N to Y)<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> Another explanation is that it derives from ''scaldberry'', an old name for blackberry.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://download.edinburgh.gov.uk/Pentlands/Pentland_Place_Names.doc |title=Archived copy |access-date=14 March 2007 |archive-date=21 February 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070221123109/http://download.edinburgh.gov.uk/Pentlands/Pentland_Place_Names.doc |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite thesis |last=Dixon |first=Norman |date=1947 |title=The Placenames of Midlothian |type= |chapter= |pages=27, 45, 46, 240 |publisher=University of Edinburgh |docket= |oclc= |url=https://spns.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/The_Placenames_of_Midlothian_Norman_Dixon.pdf |access-date=13 September 2021}}</ref> The word ''law'' is derived from the Old English for hill.
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==External links== *{{commons category-inline|Scald Law}}
Category:Mountains and hills of Midlothian Category:Hills of the Scottish Midland Valley Category:Volcanism of Scotland Category:Devonian volcanism Category:Marilyns of Scotland
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