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AUCHENHARD
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Gaelic - 'achadh-na-ard' - the field
by the height.
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AUCHENHARD
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Could be a corruption - the field of
the herd(sman).
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BENTS
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Teutonic/Biendse - hilly ground
covered with course grass.
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BREICH
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Gaelic/breac - speckled or vari-coloured.
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CUTHILL
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Welsh/cut - a hut or cottage.
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CUTTIL
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Gaelic/comhdhail - a meeting place.
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CUTTYDEN
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(Fauldhouse) - Old Scots - a hare's
nest covered with rushes.
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FOULSHIEL
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Norse/Foelje skjul
- hut of the retainers.
Fioll
skull
- house of the lunatic.
Gaelic/Faoghall
- house by the ford.
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HARE'S NEST (road)
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Probably the Fauldhouse Road.
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HEN'S NEST (road)
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The 'Hennie' road from Bents to Hen
Nest Farm, E. Whitburn.
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HOLEHOUSEBURN
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Old English/hol - a hollow.
House in the hollow by the burn.
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KNOWE(park)
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Scandanavian - a rounded hillock.
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LILTIE-CO-KEE
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Old Scots - old name for Bridgend
Farm.
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LILTIE
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Old Scots - a song or a lame person.
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COCKEE
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The old name for a 'tee' in curling.
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LONGRIDGE
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Swedish/Lanrigg - a ridge.
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