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Cambuslang

Camas Long


Settlement

Location

Lanarkshire

South Lanarkshire

G72

NS642605


English / Map Form: Cambuslang

Gaelic Form: Camas Long


Location: South Lanarkshire

Post Town: GLASGOW

Postcode area: G72

County: Lanarkshire

Local Authority: South Lanarkshire

English / Map Form: Cambuslang

Gaelic Form: Camas Long


Genitive Form: Chamas Long

Language Notes

 

Element Meaning

G camas ~ loop (in a river); long ~ ship

Sources

Camboslane 1296 Ragman Roll
Cameslong 1319 Bain’s calendar
Cambuslange 1379 x 1381 RMS i no. 645
Camyslang 1394 Reg. Passelet
Cambuslang 1581 Glas. Charters no. 72
Cambuslang 1755 Roy
Cambuslang 1816 Forrest
Cambuslang 1864 OS 1st edn

“…representing camas long, ‘bight of ships.’ There is an exceptionally fine camas on Clyde at the village of Cambuslang; the tide comes right up to it, and boats can come to it on a rising tide. At the period when the name was given the conditions probably permitted the light vessels of those days to come so far on a high tide and no further.” Watson 1926, 202

Additional Information

Many thanks to Pete Drummond for the early forms.

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