English / Map Form: Dalswinton
Gaelic Form: no Gaelic form
Location: Dumfries
Post Town: Dumfries
County: Dumfriesshire
Local Authority: Dumfries and Galloway
English / Map Form: Dalswinton
Gaelic Form: no Gaelic form
Language Notes
Element Meaning
Sources
A combination, seemingly of G dail + OS swin+tun. ‘swine town’.
The following information is paraphrased from our national policy and may be subject to change:
If the map name contains translation or adaptation of an identifiably Celtic predecessor, the name is to be left in map form.
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