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Andrew Breeze

Brittonic Place-names from South-West Scotland Part 7: Pennygant

Early Mediaeval, Mediaeval, Etymology

TDGNHAS Series III, 81 (2007), 61(2.95 MB)

Abstract

Pennygant is a fell in Roxburghshire/Borders, by the border of Dumfries and Galloway. Its name has been of obscure meaning, but seems to mean ‘hill of the English, summit of the foreigners’ in Cumbric. It would apparently date from the occupation of the D