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Fauldhouse

no Gaelic form


Location

West Lothian

West Lothian

NS924601


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.

 

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