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More or Less: Behind the Stats

Where is Scotland?s highest village?

More or Less: Behind the Stats

BBC

Business, Mathematics, Science, News Commentary, News

4.63.5K Ratings

🗓️ 15 April 2019

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

A battle is brewing in the Southern Scottish uplands between two rival villages. How can statistics help determine which village should take the crown? Wanlockhead and Leadhills both lay claim to the title of Scotland?s highest village but there can only be one winner. More or Less attempts to settle the age old dispute once and for all.

Presenter: Phoebe Keane

Picture: A village in the Southern Scottish uplands. Credit: Jan Halfpenny

Transcript

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0:00.0

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0:05.1

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0:39.9

If you venture into the mountains of the Scottish southern uplands through vast mossy rock faces

0:47.5

and with the brown heather sprawling across the landscape, you will reach one lockhead.

1:01.0

And there you will find a sign that reads one lockhead, the highest village in Scotland. That's not where our journey ends.

1:05.0

If you carry on along the road that winds through the village over the brow of a hill

1:11.4

you'll reach another village

1:13.3

Lead Hills

1:14.7

You're listening to more or less

1:18.4

on the BBC World Service

1:20.2

I'm Phoebe Keen

1:21.6

I've come to Scotland in the UK

1:23.9

to visit Cameron Halfpenny

1:25.6

He lives in Leadhills

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