Ballencrieff
Baile na Craoibhe
Meaning
the settlement (at) the tree
Location
West Lothian
West Lothian
EH48
NS977705
English / Map Form: Ballencrieff
Gaelic Form: Baile na Craoibhe
Post Town: BATHGATE
Postcode area: EH48
County: West Lothian
Local Authority: West Lothian
English / Map Form: Ballencrieff
Gaelic Form: Baile na Craoibhe
Sources
Balincref 1296 Bain’s Cal ii, 857
Balnecref 1335-6 Cal. Doc. iii, p. 337
“Ballencrieff… is for Baile na Craoibhe, ‘stead of the tree’; compare for meaning Trapren, Traprain. There is another Ballencrieff in Haddington, in Blaeu Bancreef, Banckreif.” Watson 1926, 145
