English / Map Form: Baad Park
Gaelic Form: Am Bad
Post Town: KIRKNEWTON
Postcode area: EH27
County: West Lothian
Local Authority: West Lothian
English / Map Form: Baad Park
Gaelic Form: Am Bad
Sources
Baddis 1512 RMS ii, 3745
Baddis 1540 RMS iii, 2165
Gaelic bad ‘clump’
“The Gaelic bad occurs in Badleith (WC), Baadsmains (WC) and Baad Park (MC) at points where real woodland no longer exists and the reference would appear to be to the once extensive Calder Wood already discussed.” Dixon, 50
“Baad and Baads occur several times in Midlothian.” Watson 1926, 423-4 [in discussion of Gaelic bad]