Lucklawhill
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Lucklawhill is a hamlet located one mile northwest of the village of Balmullo
Balmullo
Balmullo is a village in Fife, Scotland. It is from the town of St Andrews and near to the villages of Lucklawhill, Guardbridge, Dairsie and Leuchars...

 in Fife
Fife
Fife is a council area and former county of Scotland. It is situated between the Firth of Tay and the Firth of Forth, with inland boundaries to Perth and Kinross and Clackmannanshire...

, Scotland. Historically, Lucklawhill belonged to the Logie parish.

The Lucklaw Hill, 626 ft above the sea level, marks the eastern extremity of the Ochil Hills
Ochil Hills
The Ochil Hills is a range of hills in Scotland north of the Forth valley bordered by the towns of Stirling, Alloa, Kinross and Perth. The only major roads crossing the hills pass through Glen Devon/Glen Eagles and Glenfarg, the latter now largely replaced except for local traffic by the M90...

. The hill is composed of feldspar porphyry
Porphyry (geology)
Porphyry is a variety of igneous rock consisting of large-grained crystals, such as feldspar or quartz, dispersed in a fine-grained feldspathic matrix or groundmass. The larger crystals are called phenocrysts...

, its summit of compacted feldspar
Feldspar
Feldspars are a group of rock-forming tectosilicate minerals which make up as much as 60% of the Earth's crust....

. Authors of late 18th and early 19th centuries wrote that Lucklaw Hill was an ancient hunting park of the Kings of Scotland.
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