English / Map Form: Bangour
Gaelic Form: Beinn Ghobhar
Post Town: BROXBURN
Postcode area: EH52
County: West Lothian
Local Authority: West Lothian
English / Map Form: Bangour
Gaelic Form: Beinn Ghobhar
Sources
Bingouer 1204-10 Roy. Ed.
Bengouer 1335-6 Bain’s Cal
Above sources from MacDonald and Watson.
“Bangour, Bengouer, 1336 (Bain’s Cal.), is for beann g(h)obhar, ‘goats’ peak.’” Watson 1926, 145-6
‘Goat’s peak or hill,’ Gael Beann g(h)obhar. MacDonald, 48
