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Because there are a lot of pigs and they root up the ground. : Pretty much right. The area was named by early surveyor John Turnbull Thomson, who was famous for giving animal names to this area (such as Eweburn, Hogburn, etc), often flavoured by his Scottish-English border ancestry (burn = valley in Lallans Scots). He's also the reason a lot of places in the area have north English/south Scottish names. Anyway, while surveying this area, legend has it that he found the wild pigs in the region were completely unafraid of people - so much so that an inquisitive boar came and rubbed itself against his horse. There are several "Pigroot" placenames in the area - Pigroot creek, Pigroot hill - and the road toook its name from them. http://wiki.answers.com/Q/User:Grutness 05:43, 16 Jul 2007 (UTC)
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