Laneside

Place-name:Laneside
Suggested Meaning:at the side of the slow moving stream
Scots lane ‘slow moving stream’
SSE side ‘at the side of’
Blaeu Coila (1654):No Entry
OS Name Books (1855-57):Laneside
Location:Ordnance Survey (1894)

Laneside

Scots lane ‘slow moving stream’ + SSE ‘side’

Laneside farm took its name from its location on the north side of the Beoch Lane close to its confluence with the River Nith. The ruin has been lost to opencast coal workings.

As well as Beoch Lane, the place-name element Scots lane ‘slow-moving stream’ [1] is found elsewhere in the parish in Lane Burn (which in turn gives rise to the farm names Lanehead and Lanemark); Auchtitench Lane and Back Lane on the north-east of the parish.


Map 1: Laneside (OS 1857) | Reproduced with the permission of the National Library of Scotland

The Ordnance Survey Name Book (1855-57) entry for Laneside reads –

A small house with a few acres of land attached – It is a sublet off Waterhead.

Map 2 : Laneside and Waterhead (OS 1857) | Reproduced with the permission of the National Library of Scotland

1841 Census

Tenants: James Weir (farmer), Elzabeth Weir (wife) and David Weir (son) along lodger Robert Wallace and farm servants Rankine Park and Margaret Shield. Robert, 25, was the coal-master at Rigg-End Colliery, which was part of the neighbouring Waterhead estate. He left the colliery in 1844 and later married Rankine Park, the couple then settling at Coylton.

1851 Census

Tenants: William Dick (farmer of 35 acres), Deborah Dick nee Walls (wife), and children – Deborah, Elizabeth, James, Helen and Jane – who was born at Laneside on 10th July 1848.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

References
[1]Dictionary of the Scots Language. 2004. Scottish Language Dictionaries Ltd.|lane
Maps
Reproduced with the permission of the National Library of Scotland
https://maps.nls.uk/
Map 1: Ordnance Survey Maps – 25 inch 1st edition, Scotland, 1855-1882 (1856)|Laneside
Map 2 : Ordnance Survey Maps – Six-inch 1st edition, Scotland, 1843-1882 (1857)| Laneside & Waterhead
Ordnance Survey Name Books
By Permission of Scotland’s Places
scotlandsplaces.gov.uk
Ayrshire OS Name Books (1855-57) Vol. 49| Laneside
Scotland’s People
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