Saints in Scottish Place-Names
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St Leonard's Place, Dunfermline
Grid reference
NT 097 864 (accurate position)
Six-figure easting & northing
309700 686400
Latitude
56.06196444294248
Longitude
-3.4503821167963427
County
Fife
Nearby places
St Leonard's Hospital, Dunfermline (0.12 miles)
St Leonard's Well, Dunfermline (0.12 miles)
St Mary's Chapel, Dunfermline (0.45 miles)
Lady's Mill, Dunfermline (0.5 miles)
Dunfermline Abbey, Trinity, Dunfermline (0.7 miles)
Object Classification
Other
street-name
Is linear feature?
No
Notes
The street is probably named after St Leonard's Hospital (see Taylor with Márkus i, 324) which lay at NT097866. It gave its name to Hospital Bridge, Hospital Cross Head on OS 6 inch 1st edn (1856).
Relationships with other parishes
Within Dunfermline, parish
Relationships with other places
Adjacent St Leonard's Well, Dunfermline
Names
1 head-name linked to this place ?St Leonard's Place
Head name
St Leonard's Place
Place
St Leonard's Place, Dunfermline
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
St Leonard's Place 1856, OS 6 inch first edn.
Historic formSt Leonard's Place Head nameSt Leonard's Place PlaceSt Leonard's Place, Dunfermline Certainty that this name applies to this placeCertain SourceOS 6 inch first edn. Notes on the context of this place-nameMid to late 19th c. |
Source code
OS 6 inch first edn.
Source title
Ordnance Survey 6 Inch to the Mile, First Edition
Notes
Mid to late 19th c.
Saints in this place-name
Leonard (ns) (certain)
Leonard of Noblac (certain)
Place-name data
The place-name data featured in this resource is copyright of the University of Glasgow.
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Modern OS map:
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OS 1840-1880 map:
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OS 1920-1933 map:
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