Lammermoor Hills, broad range of hills, south-eastern Scotland, extending north-east from the valley of the Gala Water to the North Sea at St Abbs Head. The highest peak is Lammer Law (528 m/1,733 ft). The area is drained to the south by the Gala Water, Lauder, Blackadder, and Whiteadder rivers, which all flow into the Tweed, and on the north by the Scottish River Tyne. The Lammermuirs are the easternmost range of the broad chain of hills that extends across the whole width of southern Scotland. Sir Walter Scott's novel The Bride of Lammermoor (1819), on which Donizetti based his opera Lucia di Lammermoor (1835), is set in the region.
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