PLACE-NAME | SUGGESTED MEANING |
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Saddle Hags | 1. hag on saddle-shaped hill or 2. saddle-shaped hag on hill S. hag ‘marshy hollow piece of ground in a moor’ |
Sandy Syke (1) (Afton Water) | S. sandy ‘sandy peat’ S. sike ‘slow, sluggish, stream’ |
Sandy Syke (2) (Water of Deugh) | S. sandy ‘sandy peat’ S. sike ‘slow, sluggish, stream’ |
Sandyhole Burn | |
Seggy Burn | S. seggy ‘bordered with sedges, rushes’ S. burn ‘stream’ |
Sheel Burn, Sheel Moss | |
Sheel Moss | |
Shiel Hill | |
Sheil, Shiel Burn | |
Shield Burn | |
Slippery Burn | |
Small Burn X2 | |
South Boig | Gaelic bog, buig ‘marshy, fen, swampy, ground’ |
Spout Burn X4 | |
Standard Knowe | |
Star Bog | S, star ‘grass that grows in boggy land’ + bog |
Stayamrie | 1. Scots stey ‘steep 2. Scots amery ‘big cupboard’ 1. Scots stey ‘steep’ 2. Old Irish aimreidh ‘steep’ |
Stell Knowe | Scots stell ‘shelter for sheep’ |
Stellhead Rig | Scots steel ‘lower part of a ridge projecting from a hill‘ + SSE head ‘head, top’ Scots rig ‘ridge’. |
Stonecross Burn | Scots stonecross ‘boundary marker’ burn ‘stream’ |
Stony Hill | |
Stony Knowes Hill | stony + S. knowes ‘hillocks’ + hill |
Stonyknowes | stony + S. knowes ‘hillocks’ |
Stot Sike | S. stot ‘young castrated ox, steer, bullock’ S. sike ‘slow, sluggish stream’ |
Straid, Straid Burn, Straid Level | Gaelic sraid ‘street’ |
Strandlud Hill | |
Strathwiggan Burn | |
Street | |
Struthers Brae | S. struther ‘marshy place’ S. brae ‘brow of a hill’ |
Sunny Sike | S. sunny (or variant of sandy) S. sike ‘slow, sluggish stream’ |
Sunnyside | S. sunnyside ‘ land having a southern exposure’ |
Swinkey Burn | S. swinky ‘earth-worm’ S. burn ‘stream’ worm-shaped burn |
PLACE-NAME | SUGGESTED MEANING |