Carcant Contents Etymology See also References External links Navigation menuRenewables Map: Carcant, Heriot, Scottish BordersScottish Natural Heritage: Windfarms in Scotland (March 2010RCAHMS record of CarcantRCAHMS record of Carcant WindfarmBritish Listed Buildings: Carcant Bridge over Carcant BurnEric Liddell Image Gallery55°45′43″N 3°00′47″W / 55.762°N 3.013°W / 55.762; -3.013expanding ite
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Carcant is a small settlement and a wind farm, near Heriot in the Scottish Borders area of Scotland.
A famous inhabitant of Carcant was Eric Liddell.
Contents
1 Etymology
2 See also
3 References
4 External links
Etymology
Carcant is etymologically a Cumbric place-name. The first element is cognate with Welsh caer 'fortification'. The second might be can 'white', in which case the name means 'white fort'; but more likely it is cant 'edge of a circle', in this context probably meaning 'district, region, edge, border', thus giving 'fort of the region/border'.[1]
See also
- Clan Borthwick
- List of places in the Scottish Borders
References
^ Bethany Fox, 'The P-Celtic Place-Names of North-East England and South-East Scotland', The Heroic Age, 10 (2007), http://www.heroicage.org/issues/10/fox.html (appendix at http://www.heroicage.org/issues/10/fox-appendix.html).
External links
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- Renewables Map: Carcant, Heriot, Scottish Borders
Scottish Natural Heritage: Windfarms in Scotland (March 2010[permanent dead link]- RCAHMS record of Carcant
- RCAHMS record of Carcant Windfarm
- British Listed Buildings: Carcant Bridge over Carcant Burn
- Eric Liddell Image Gallery
Coordinates: 55°45′43″N 3°00′47″W / 55.762°N 3.013°W / 55.762; -3.013
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