Saints in Scottish Place-Names
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St Margaret's Burn, SLN/CLE
Grid reference
NT 039 972 (accurate position)
Six-figure easting & northing
303900 697200
Latitude
56.157843972260366
Longitude
-3.547391918995719
Altitude (metres)
120
County
Fife
Nearby places
St Margaret's Craig, Dunfermline (0.92 miles)
Gartwhinzean, settlement Fossoway (1.49 miles)
Tullibole, former parish, Fossoway (2.42 miles)
Saline, parish (3.08 miles)
St Brigit's Church, Fossoway (3.27 miles)
Object Classification
Water
Is linear feature?
Yes
Notes
The burn flows northwards from St Margaret's Craig DFL till it meets the Pow Burn (the confluence is at the NGR given). It once formed the boundary between SLN and the part of DFL which lay in Kinross-shire (KNR). Since 1891, however, it has formed the boundary between SLN and Cleish KNR (Taylor with Márkus i, 360).
Relationships with other parishes
Within Cleish, parish
Within Dunfermline, parish (formerly)
Within Saline, parish
Relationships with other places
Adjacent St Margaret's Craig, Dunfermline
Names
1 head-name linked to this place ?St Margaret's Burn
Head name
St Margaret's Burn
Place
St Margaret's Burn, SLN/CLE
Certainty that this name applies to this place
Certain
The status of this name is
Current
Is this a current OS form? ?
Yes
Is this the original referent of the place?
Yes
Is the association of this name to this object hypothetical?
No
Saints in this place-name
Margaret (ns) (certain)
Margaret of Scotland (probable)