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Cobbinshaw Reservoir

Scotland
Era
Unknown Era
Battle Type
Pitched Battle
Location
Scotland
Status
Unregistered
The Battle

History & Significance

Cobbinshaw Reservoir was a pitched battle between opposing field armies, fought in Scotland. Which side prevailed is not recorded in the surviving sources, and its outcome is not conclusively established in the historical record.

The ground

The ground they fought on

The site of Cobbinshaw Reservoir lies on Strathclyde Group, bedrock that formed in the Visean. The rock here is sedimentary rock cycles, strathclyde group type.

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Monuments
The legally protected scheduled monuments around the location, each with its period, type and significance.
Battlefields
The battles and sieges fought on this ground, mapped and set on a timeline of the wider conflict.
Roman Britain
The Roman roads, forts and towns near here, and the Iron Age people who held the land before Rome arrived.
Stat Accounts
The parish Statistical Accounts of the 1790s and 1830s, describing life, work and population here.
Civil War
The Civil War fighting, garrisons and recorded militaria in this area, woven into the arc of 1642 to 1651.
Geology
The bedrock beneath the site, its age and rock type, reaching back hundreds of millions of years.
Local Names
What the street and field names around here actually mean, and the history buried inside them.
Historical Maps
Ordnance Survey maps from the 1800s, layered over the location as it stands today.
Literature
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Protected heritage nearby

Scheduled Monuments near Cobbinshaw Reservoir

West Harwood, burial mound 720m SSE of
West Harwood, burial mound 720m SSE of
Scheduled monument · ~1.2 mi

West Harwood burial mound, 720 metres south-south-east of the settlement, is a Bronze Age funerary monument in Midlothian, Scotland. The mound rises from bedrock of the Strathclyde Group, sedimentary strata laid down during the Visean period of the Carboniferous era. This stable geological founda…

Haywood, deserted mining village
Haywood, deserted mining village
Scheduled monument · ~3 mi

Haywood is a deserted mining village in Lanarkshire, Scotland, situated above bedrock of the Clackmannan Group, sedimentary rocks formed during the Westphalian period. The geological foundation of sandstones and mudstones that underlie the site reflects the coal-bearing strata characteristic of t…

Crosswood, cairn 750m SE of
Crosswood, cairn 750m SE of
Scheduled monument · ~3.1 mi

Crosswood cairn is a Bronze Age burial monument situated 750 metres south-east of Crosswood in Midlothian, Scotland. The cairn stands on bedrock formed from the Strathclyde Group, a sequence of sedimentary rocks laid down during the Visean period of the Carboniferous era. This geological foundati…

Old West Calder Church, West Calder
Old West Calder Church, West Calder
Scheduled monument · ~3.2 mi

Old West Calder Church is a parish church situated in Midlothian, Scotland, in an area underlain by sedimentary rocks of the Strathclyde Group dating to the Visean period. The church stands protected as a scheduled monument by Historic Environment Scotland under reference SM7254, reflecting its s…

Tashieburn, horse engine platform 50m NE of
Tashieburn, horse engine platform 50m NE of
Scheduled monument · ~3.6 mi

Tashieburn Horse Engine Platform is a rare survival of early industrial mining infrastructure in Lanarkshire, Scotland. The structure sits upon bedrock of the Clackmannan Group, sedimentary rocks formed during the Westphalian period, which together with the overlying coal seams made this locality…

Five Sisters,shale bing SE of Mid Breich
Five Sisters,shale bing SE of Mid Breich
Scheduled monument · ~3.7 mi

Five Sisters is a shale bing located south-east of Mid Breich in Linlithgowshire, Scotland. Shale bings are artificial hills created as waste heaps during the intensive Scottish shale oil industry of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, when local deposits were worked for their mineral oil con…

Camilty Hill,enclosure,Harburn
Scheduled monument · Post-Medieval · ~2.6 miles
Camilty Hill,Roman fortlet,Castle Greg
Scheduled monument · Iron Age · ~2.6 miles
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Battles near Cobbinshaw Reservoir

West Sidewood
~4.7 miles away
Blackburn
~4.7 miles away
West Linton
~9.7 miles away
Battle of Leghorn
1653
~10.1 miles away
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