English / Map Form: Tipper Well
Gaelic Form: An Tiobar
Post Town: PENICUIK
Postcode area: EH26
County: Midlothian
Local Authority: Midlothian
English / Map Form: Tipper Well
Gaelic Form: An Tiobar
Sources
“Near Penicuik is a well from which the old people sometimes desire to drink when ill: it is called ‘the Tippert Well,’ from Gaelic tiobart, a well.” Watson 1926, 135
An Tiobar ‘the well’.
The English word ‘well’ was added to this when the Gaelic was no longer understandable.
