Cheviot Hills

[ chev-ee-uht, chee-vee- ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

plural noun

a range of hills on the boundary between England and Scotland: highest point, 2,676 feet (816 meters).

Cheviot Hills

a range of hills on the border between England and Scotland, mainly in Northumberland

The Cheviot Hills glittered in the west; it was the kind good-bye of our own dear England.

What should I speak of the Cheviot Hills, which reach twenty miles in length?

From the top of the hill we had an extensive view over the moors of Liddisdale, and saw the Cheviot Hills.

They allowed him that very best means of education, a calmness of the senses, as he herded sheep on the Cheviot Hills.

North of the Cheviot Hills the names are again predominantly Norse.

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