Saints in Scottish Place-Names
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Rude Well, Crail
Grid reference
NO 614 080 (accurate position)
Six-figure easting & northing
361400 708000
Latitude
56.26300382849999
Longitude
-2.6232125493098892
Altitude (metres)
30
County
Fife
Nearby places
Holy Cross Kirk, eccles. Crail (0.14 miles)
Crail, parish (0.14 miles)
St Maolrubha's Chapel, Crail (0.32 miles)
Ladylands, settlement, Kingsbarns (1.05 miles)
Kilminning, settlement Crail (1.06 miles)
Object Classification
Antiquity
Water
Is linear feature?
No
Notes
This well gave its name to a settlement or land-unit called Rude Well, which appears as Ruidwallis in 1594 (RMS vi no. 100) and Rudwell Croft in 1517 (Crail Register no. 26).
Relationships with other parishes
Within Crail, parish
Relationships with other places
Adjacent Holy Cross Kirk, eccles. Crail
Names
1 head-name linked to this place ?Rude Well
Head name
Rude Well
Place
Rude Well, Crail
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
Cross (ns) (certain)
Rude, Rood (certain)
Place-name data
The place-name data featured in this resource is copyright of the University of Glasgow.
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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
