Place-Names: L

PLACE-NAME	SUGGESTED MEANING
Lagan Hill
Laglaff
Lagower Hill
Laigh Coalburn
Laigh Park
Laight
Lairhag Burn
Lamb Hill x2
Lane Burn	Scots lane ‘slow-moving stream’
Lanehead	Scots lane ‘slow-moving stream’ + head ‘head, source’
Lanemark	Scots lane ‘slow-moving stream’ + Scots mark ‘merk-land’ Lanemark on the banks of Lane Burn
Lanemark Moss	Moss on the lands of Lanemark
Laneside	Scots lane ‘slow-moving stream’ + ‘side’ Laneside farm at the side of Beoch Lane
Langlee Burn
Legate	Scots liggate ‘self-closing gate’
Lethans
Lethans Hill x2
Limekiln Burn	Named after the limekilns at Guelt Lime Works
Lingie Hill
Linn Burn (1) Mansfield Linn Linn Burn Nether Linn Upper Linn	Scots linn ‘waterfall’ Personal name : Mansfield
Linn Burn (2)	Scots linn ‘waterfall’
Linn Burn (3)	Scots linn ‘waterfall’
Linn Water
Little Coupla
Little Creoch
Little Dalhanna	see Dalhanna “Hannay’s Holm”
Little Garclaugh
Littlemark	S. little ‘smaller part of- ‘ S. mark ‘unit of land valued at a mark’
Little Poljorg Burn
Little Rigend
Littlechang Hill
Littledodd Hill
Loch Rig
Lochbrowan	G. lag ‘hollow’
Lochill / Lochill	previously East Lowes – See Lowes
Lochingirroch	G. lag ‘hollow’
Lochmeharb	G. lag ‘hollow’
Loch O’ The Lowes	S. lowis ‘lochs’ – ‘Loch of the Lochs’
Lochside	House and farm at the side o Loch O’ Th’ Lowes
Lochside Loch	A name briefly applied to Loch O’ Th’ Lowes and named after nearby Lochside house and farm (which was named for being in the side of the Loch O’ Th’ Lowes!).
Logan Hill
Long Break
Long Craig
Longhouse Burn
Loup Burn	S. loup ‘jump’
Loupsheugh Burn, Rig, Rigg	S. loup ‘jump’ + S. sheugh ‘ditch’
Lowes; East, West, Mid	S. lowis ‘lochs’
Lowesmuir , Lowesmuir Mount	Place-name: Lowes + S. muir ‘moorland, heath’ S. munt ‘low tree covered hill”
Lowmount Plantation	low ‘lower down the hill’ S. munt ‘low tree covered hill’ S. plantation ‘group of trees’
PLACE-NAME	SUGGESTED MEANING

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