English / Map Form: Auchenblae
Gaelic Form: Achadh nam Blàth
Location: Laurencekirk
Post Town: LAURENCEKIRK
Postcode area: AB30
County: Kincardineshire
Local Authority: Aberdeenshire
English / Map Form: Auchenblae
Gaelic Form: Achadh nam Blàth
Language Notes
Element Meaning
Sources
Auchinblae 1630 RMS xiii, 1678
Maybe Achadh an Blaith, field of the blossom.: A. Watson 2013, ‘Place names in much of north-east Scotland’ 155-6
Additional Information
The origin of this name is not certain, but the currently proposed form is the one now understood.
