Saints in Scottish Place-Names
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Mungo's Walls, wells Edrom
Grid reference
NT 810 520 (assumed location)
Six-figure easting & northing
381000 652000
Latitude
55.760998485583855
Longitude
-2.30280829021387
County
Berwickshire
Nearby places
Mungo's Walls, settlement Edrom (0.09 miles)
Duns, parish (1.86 miles)
Maryfield, settlement Duns (1.87 miles)
Johnsfield, settlement Duns (2.23 miles)
Ladywell, settlement Duns (2.5 miles)
Object Classification
Water
Is linear feature?
No
Notes
The existence of a well or wells here is inferred from the settlement-name Mungo's Walls (q.v.), which contains the Scots word for 'wells'. OS recorders inn 1972 were unable to discover any local knowledge of a well in the area (NMRS).
Names
1 head-name linked to this place ?Mungo's Walls
Head name
Mungo's Walls
Place
Mungo's Walls, wells Edrom
Certainty that this name applies to this place
Possible
The status of this name is
Hypothetical
Is this a current OS form? ?
No
Is this the original referent of the place?
Maybe
Is the association of this name to this object hypothetical?
Yes
Saints in this place-name
Kentigern, Mungo, Mo Choe (ns) (maybe)
Kentigern of Glasgow (maybe)
Place-name data
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Satellite map with labels:
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Modern OS map:
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OS 1840-1880 map:
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OS 1920-1933 map:
National Library of Scotland Historic Maps
