Saints in Scottish Place-Names
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Masterton, former parish, Newbattle
Grid reference
NT 344 636 (general (1km))
Six-figure easting & northing
334400 663600
Latitude
55.86114622814875
Longitude
-3.0481931150865655
County
Midlothian
Nearby places
Cockpen, parish (1.13 miles)
Newbattle Abbey, Newbattle (1.64 miles)
Newbattle, parish (1.72 miles)
Carrington, parish MLO (2.11 miles)
St Kentigern's Well, Borthwick (2.28 miles)
Object Classification
Parish (non-extant in 1975)
Is linear feature?
No
Notes
NGR is for Masterton House, a fine seventeenth-century building demolished in the 1940s.
Relationships with other parishes
Within Newbattle, parish
Parish details
Masterton now part of Newbattle NBL
Parish TLA
MSX
Medieval diocese
St Andrews
Names
1 head-name linked to this place ?Masterton
This is not a hagiotoponym.Head name
Masterton
Place
Masterton, former parish, Newbattle
Certainty that this name applies to this place
Certain
The status of this name is
Obsolete
Is this a current OS form? ?
No
Is this the original referent of the place?
No
Is the association of this name to this object hypothetical?
No
Maysterton 1320, RRS v
Historic formMaysterton This is not a hagiotoponym. Head nameMasterton PlaceMasterton, former parish, Newbattle Certainty that this name applies to this placeCertain SourceRRS v, no. 168 Date of citation1320 x 1320 Feature named in sourceecclesia |
Associated person or bodyRobert I, king of Scots Certainty of identity of person or bodyCertain |
Source code
RRS v
Source title
Regesta Regum Scottorum vol.v
Editors
A.A.M. Duncan
Secondary Title
Acts of Robert I
Year
1988
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