Saints in Scottish Place-Names
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Torphichen, parish
Grid reference
NS 968 725 (accurate position)
Six-figure easting & northing
296800 672500
Latitude
55.9345067238904
Longitude
-3.6521523806590017
Nearby places
Torphichen, ~eccles Torphichen (0 miles)
St John's Well, Torphichen (0.28 miles)
St Morgan's Seat, Muiravonside (1.76 miles)
Morgunessete, settlement, Muiravonside (1.76 miles)
Muiravonside, modern parish (2.85 miles)
Object Classification
Parish (extant in 1975)
Is linear feature?
No
Notes
NGR for the remains of the Preceptory of Torphichen, Knights Hospitallers of St John of Jerusalem. See NMRS for description of the remains.
Relationships with other places
Contains St John's Well, Torphichen
Contains Torphichen, ~eccles Torphichen
Parish TLA
TPH
County
West Lothian
Medieval diocese
St Andrews
Parish notes
In origin the only house of Hospitallers in Scotland, the church had become parochial before 1448, the parsonage teinds remaining with the Knights of St John of Jerusalem, while the cure was a vicarage perpetual (Cowan 1967, 198).
Names
1 head-name linked to this place ?Torphichen
Head name
Torphichen
Place
Torphichen, parish
Certainty that this name applies to this place
Certain
The status of this name is
Current
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
Torphechin 1324, RMS
Historic formTorphechin Head nameTorphichen PlaceTorphichen, parish Certainty that this name applies to this placeCertain SourceRMS, i. App. 1, no. 49 Date of citation1324 x 1324 Notes on the context of this place-nameReprinted 1984 |
Source code
RMS
Source title
Registrum Magni Sigilli (Register of the Great Seal)
Editors
J.M.Thomson et al.
Volume
1-11
Year
1882-1914
Notes
Reprinted 1984
Torphichane 1560, Assumption
Historic formTorphichane Head nameTorphichen PlaceTorphichen, parish Certainty that this name applies to this placeCertain SourceAssumption, 152 Date of citation1560 x 1570 Feature named in sourcevicarage |
Source code
Assumption
Source title
The Books of Assumption of the Thirds of Benefices: Scottish Ecclesiastical Rentals at the Reformation
Editors
J. Kirk
Series
Records of Social and Economic History, New Series, 21
Year
1995
Saints in this place-name
Féichíne m. Cóelcharna, of Fore (Fobhar) (probable)
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