English / Map Form: Norval Street
Gaelic Form: Sràid Norval
Location: Partick, Glasgow
Post Town: GLASGOW
County: City of Glasgow
Local Authority: Glasgow City
English / Map Form: Norval Street
Gaelic Form: Sràid Norval
Language Notes
G nom. sg. sràid fem. 'street' + en Norval, personal nameElement Meaning
G sràid ~ ‘street’; en Norval, personal name
Sources
Black’s Surnames of Scotland, 633 lists occurrences of Norval as a surname in the Glasgow area c. 1600s.
Macintosh, Glasgow Streets N-R, 1470 lists Norval Place and Norval Streets.
Spalding 1996 suggests that the name Norval was taken from a character in Hume’s Play, Douglas, which was popular at the time.
This is on record since 1913.