English / Map Form: Fauldhouse
Gaelic Form: no Gaelic form
Location: West Lothian
Post Town: BATHGATE
County: West Lothian
Local Authority: West Lothian
English / Map Form: Fauldhouse
Gaelic Form: no Gaelic form
Language Notes
Element Meaning
Sources
| Fawlhous | 1523 Ham. Inv. |
| Falhouse | c. 1540 Rent. Tor. |
| terras de Faldhouse | 1559 RMS iv, 1384 |
| Falas | 1654 Blaeu Lothian and Linlithgow |
| extentus de Fauldhouse | 1696 Retours (Lanark) 430 |
| ?Fallahill | 1747-55 Roy [also mentions Falamill] |
| Fala | 1684 Adair Mappe of Wast Lothian |
| Fala | 1737 Adair map of West Midlothian [with Falahill and Fala moss] |
| Fallahouses | 1773 Armstrong map of the three Lothians [with Fallah Hill] |
| Fauldhouse | 1818 Forrest Linlithgow shire [with Fallahills] |
| Fauldhouse | 1820 Thomson |
| Fallaws | 1821 Ainslie’s map of the Southern Part of Scotland |
`House of unploughed land’ v F(E)ALH, fallow. At a later period the first part of the name is confused with Sc. Fauld, OE fal(o)d, hence the modern spelling.” MacDonald 1941, 107
Additional Information
There is a street, Fallas Place in Fauldhouse.
