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.