United Kingdom scenic viewpoint
Scott's View
You can see 44 km from here, looking south.
Calculating the panorama…
Drag to turn around. The relief is drawn 2.2 times taller so the ridges can be read; far ridges are paler, as in the real air.
The view
Up to 44 km away.
Calculated on the relief one degree at a time, up to 250 km, with the curvature of the Earth and the refraction of the air: what stands above the horizon from here.
Our own rating, from the relief and the climate only: open horizon (35 points), how far you see (25), sea and named peaks in view (20) and clear months (20).
- 44 kmFarthest ridgelooking south
- 97%Open horizonof the circle where the horizon is below your eyes
- 10Peaks in viewnamed summits that rise above the relief in front
- 192 mAltitudeabove the sea, at the highest point of the viewpoint
The 10 peaks you can name from here
From west to east as you turn around: height, distance and direction. Each one links to its guide on Peakyas, our mountain atlas.
From the relief only: buildings, trees and haze are not in the model. On a hazy day you see much less; 250 km is the limit of our calculation.
The sun
The best sunsets are in February, from April to May and in September.
When the sun really disappears from this viewpoint — behind the relief or into the sea — and in which direction, on the 15th of each month, in local time.
- Jansouth-west10 min before the sea-level sunset21%
- Febsouth-west18 min before the sea-level sunset24%
- Marwest12 min before the sea-level sunset23%
- Aprwest12 min before the sea-level sunset25%
- Maynorth-west14 min before the sea-level sunset26%
- Junnorth-west16 min before the sea-level sunset18%
- Julnorth-west14 min before the sea-level sunset22%
- Augnorth-west12 min before the sea-level sunset22%
- Sepwest12 min before the sea-level sunset24%
- Octwest26 min before the sea-level sunset24%
- Novsouth-west10 min before the sea-level sunset24%
- Decsouth-west10 min before the sea-level sunset23%
- Time: when the sun goes behind the horizon you see from here.
- Minutes: how much earlier the relief hides the sun.
- %: share of clear sky that month (NASA, 2001–2020).
The highlighted months are the clearest. Golden hour starts about an hour before.
The place
Scott's View.
Scenic viewpoint in Scottish Borders, Scotland, UK
Scott's View is a scenic viewpoint in United Kingdom, 192 m above the sea.
On a clear day the farthest ridge you can see is 44 km away, looking south.
10 named peaks rise above the relief in front; the most prominent is Ettrick Pen (692 m), 47 km away.
The horizon is open, below your eyes, over 97% of the circle.
The skies are clearest in February, from April to May and in September.
Get there and stay
- Springleecampsite · 1.4 km · 4 within 10 km
- Clint Lodgeplace to stay · 1.9 km · 23 within 10 km
- Newtown St Boswellsnearest town · 2.7 km in a straight linePlaces to stay in Newtown St BoswellsBooking.com · sponsored link↗
- Edinburgh Airport (EDI)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 60 km in a straight lineCar hire at EDI airport (Ingliston, Edinburgh)Discover Cars · sponsored link↗
Plan the visit
A guided tour, a bed nearby, a car.
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From above
The viewpoint and its surroundings.
The satellite image of the 6 × 6 km around the viewpoint, with what OpenStreetMap shows nearby.
Around, in OpenStreetMap
- 6other viewpoints within 5 kmScott's View, Leaderfoot Viaduct, Trimontium viewing platform and 3 more
- 14named peaks within 5 kmEildon Hill North, Eildon Mid Hill, Eildon Wester Hill and 11 more
- 5marked trails within 3 kmSaint Cuthbert's Way (Melrose to Kirk Yetholm), Borders Abbeys Way, Eildon Hills Trail and 2 more
- 2shelters and huts within 5 km
- 28car parks within 3 km
- 2visitor centres within 5 kmDryburgh Abbey Visitor Centre, Abbey House
- 2restaurants and cafés within 3 km
- 4campsites within 10 kmSpringlee, Gibson Park Caravan Club Site, Roulotte Retreat and 1 more
- 23places to stay within 10 kmClint Lodge, Dryburgh Abbey Hotel, Dryburgh Arms and 20 more
- cable car and funicular stations within 5 km
Counted in OpenStreetMap, the map anyone can edit. A low number may just mean nobody has mapped it yet.
In our other atlases
What you see from Scott's View, and what is near.
Everything around this viewpoint — mountains, water, forests, birds, caves and the night sky — in the family's atlases.
Peakyas14 mountains within 25 km
Birdyas2 birding sites within 25 kmFigures from the sister sites' databases (Wikidata, HydroATLAS, GeoNames, OpenStreetMap, GBIF). Links open when each site is online.
Photographs
The view, as people saw it.
Other viewpoints nearby.
Scott's View
United Kingdom
- 53Viewyas Score
- 44 kmFarthest ridge
- 10Peaks in view
- 192 mAltitude
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- 80Viewyas Score
- 183 kmFarthest ridge
- 239Peaks in view
- 967 mAltitude
Hunt Cliff
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- 79Viewyas Score
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- 60Viewyas Score
- 72 kmFarthest ridge
- 50Peaks in view
- 1 mAltitude
Where these figures come from
| Name and type | Wikidata (Q2261448) · CC0 |
|---|---|
| Sun | J. Meeus, Astronomical Algorithms |
| Peaks in view | Peakyas (Wikidata, CC0) |
| Panorama and altitude | Copernicus DEM GLO-90 / GLO-30 · © DLR e.V., © Airbus Defence and Space GmbH, Copernicus/ESA |
| Clouds | NASA POWER (CERES SYN1deg, 2001–2020; MERRA-2) |
| What is around | © OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL |
| Images | EOX Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 · CC BY 4.0; Wikimedia Commons |
| Sister atlases | Peakyas, Islandyas, Birdyas, Riveryas |
Every figure is an average, an estimate or a count from a public dataset. Licences and methods: data sources.
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