Auchencrow

Coordinates: 55°51′24″N 2°14′05″W / 55.85661°N 2.23467°W / 55.85661; -2.23467

Auchencrow
Auchencrow  Auchencrow shown within the Scottish Borders
OS grid reference	NT8560
Council area	Scottish Borders
Country	Scotland
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	Duns
Dialling code	01890
Police	Lothian and Borders
Fire	Lothian and Borders
Ambulance	Scottish
EU Parliament	Scotland
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Auchencrow (Scottish Gaelic: Allt na Crà) is a small village in the Scottish Borders area of Scotland, by the Lammermuir range of hills, and near Reston.

Etymology

The modern name, Auchencrow, tends to obscure the question of origins. A Gaelic origin is accepted by Watson (1926, 138) and Nicholaisen (1976, 138). It is thought that the meaning is "achaidh na cra" "field of the tree or trees" This is apparently contradicted by the 12th-century name-form ‘Alden-’, also preserved, for example, in four 13th-century Durham charters. Mac an Tàilleir suggests the form Aldenacraw may be derived from a name for the watercourse (such as the Gaelic Allt na Crà "stream of the salmon trap") rather than the settlement itself.^[1]

Auchencrow

Something like ‘Halden’s Grave’ or ‘Halden’s Grove’ could be nearer the original idea, but it is more natural to use the current name, and to speak of the village of Auchencrow. This is itself a form only recently derived by folk-etymology from the much longerrunning ‘Edencraw’ or ‘Auchencrawe’: an evolution from Halden- to Alden- or Eden- to Auchenand from -grove/ -grave to -crawe to -crow.^{[citation needed]}

James Hutton, the founder of modern geology, farmed two miles to the west. A James Hutton Trail was established in 2006.

See also

• List of places in the Scottish Borders
• List of places in Scotland

References

1. ^ Mac an Tàilleir, Iain (2003) Placenames. (pdf) Pàrlamaid na h-Alba. Retrieved 05 March 2010.

External links

• RCAHMS record on Auchencrow Mains
• Gazetteer for Scotland
• In the territory of Auchencrow: long continuity or late development in early Scottish field-systems?

• Image of Auchencrow

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