Cardrona, Scottish Borders
Cardrona is a village on the A72 and B7062, between Peebles and Innerleithen, in the Scottish Borders area of Scotland.
Places nearby include Glentress, Kirkburn, Scottish Borders, Kirkhouse, Traquair, and Walkerburn.
Etymology
Cardrona is etymologically a Cumbric place-name. The first element is cognate with Welsh caer 'fortification'. The second element is less clear but recent work suggests a word cognate with Welsh trwyn, literally 'nose' but attested in Welsh and Cornish place-names in the sense 'promontory'. If so the name means something like 'fort of the promontories'.[1]
See also
References
- ↑ Bethany Fox, 'The P-Celtic Place-Names of North-East England and South-East Scotland', The Heroic Age, 10 (2007), http://www.heroicage.org/issues/10/fox.html (appendix at http://www.heroicage.org/issues/10/fox-appendix.html).
External links
- RCAHMS record for Cardrona, Horsburgh Viaduct
- SCRAN Image: Cardrona Viaduct, Cardrona, Peebles-shire
- Gazetteer for Scotland: Cardrona
- Forestry Commission: Cardrona
- Cardrona Standing Stones
- GEOGRAPH image: Tweed Bridge, Cardrona
- Cardrona village website
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