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Ballencrieff

Baile na Craoibhe


Meaning

the settlement (at) the tree


Settlement

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

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