Scottish toponymy - Northern place names?

[FD001__]

I know some people like to give hamlets and villages names instead of the generic Xham2 or Yhf1, and I found this website from Ordnance Survey that details different parts of place names that are Scots/Gaelic in origin.

I figured some of you might be interested in this in the future.

Interesting ones I like:
Stell - deep pool in a river
Comb - bosom of a hill, hollow in a mountain side
Frith - clearing in a wood

The Scots origins of place names in Britain | OS GetOutside

Find the original meanings of British place names that use Scots source words with this extensive list of terms, along with pronunciation.

getoutside.ordnancesurvey.co.uk

 

[Wazgamer]

Love this!

There’s also:
Dun = Fortified area/keep/castle
Kirk = Church (could maybe have sept instead)
Gow (from Brittonic) = Hollow
Glas = Grey/Green
Les (Possibly from Brittonic or Gaelic) = Enclosure or garden


It’s also super common to have towns after the local Clan/Family e.g Hamilton or Douglas

Nice find!

 

[EStoop]

I used this while coming up with some of the names for districts in Oldtown:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_generic_forms_in_place_names_in_Ireland_and_the_United_Kingdom

 

[Jakethesnake8_8]

Here are some I know

suffixes
-ford river crossing
-stow(e) holy place
-ton town
-ham hamlet
-stable or -staple market
-by farm

prefixes
dun- or tun- hill
dal- meadow
lin- lake (or any body of water)
pen- headland or the top of a hill
shep- or ship- sheep farm

 

[FD001__]

Here are some I know

suffixes
-ford river crossing
-stow(e) holy place
-ton town
-ham hamlet
-stable or -staple market
-by farm

prefixes
dun- or tun- hill
dal- meadow
lin- lake (or any body of water)
pen- headland or the top of a hill
shep- or ship- sheep farm

A lot of these are Anglo-Saxon I think, like -stow or -stable.