Talk:Hopetoun Monument

Two of them

This article's a bit confused at the moment (as was I until I did some more searching): there are actually two Hopetoun Monuments, one in Fife on Mount Hill just southeast of the A92/A913 junction, and one in East Lothian near Haddington at the A6137/B1343 junction. At the moment, the text describes the East Lothian one, but the reference link at the bottom is to the Fife one. This page says they were "built to unite two parts of an estate on each side of the Forth." Would anyone like to fill in the backstory? Adam Sampson (talk) 22:13, 23 January 2011 (UTC)

The two towers are (on a clear day!) visible from each other, if you have a decent telescope (citation: I saw it through a telescope). The tradition is this was deliberate, though who knows. Calum (talk) 00:43, 24 January 2020 (UTC)

Thanks Adam, though I'm not sure which link you mean? The listed building report is for the Haddington one, while the Commons link brings up photos of both of them. The other is also listed [1], I might start a page and make this page a disambig. Regards, Jonathan Oldenbuck (talk) 10:47, 24 January 2011 (UTC)

As it turns out, there is an article on Mount Hill, the hill in Fife on which the monument stands. I've interlinked the two, and provided some more refs. I havent found a reliable source for the uniting-the-estate story. I also made a separate Commons category for the Fife monument. Regards, Jonathan Oldenbuck (talk) 11:24, 24 January 2011 (UTC)