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