Saints in Scottish Place-Names
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St Andrews Well, well, Kemback
Grid reference
NO 437 145 (assumed location)
Six-figure easting & northing
343700 714500
Latitude
56.31963278263433
Longitude
-2.9103389113434917
Altitude (metres)
145
County
Fife
Nearby places
St Andrews Wells, settlement Kemback (0 miles)
Kemback, parish (1.29 miles)
St Mary's Church, Dairsie (1.74 miles)
Dairsie, parish FIF (1.74 miles)
Ceres, parish (2.93 miles)
Object Classification
Water
Is linear feature?
No
Notes
The well or wells, after which the settlement of St Andrews Wells KMB is named, lay beside the boundary between the parishes of Kemback and St Andrews until 1621. That part of St Andrews was then absorbed into Ceres parish. The well(s) lay on the medieval road to St Andrews, and would have marked the spot where pilgrims and other travellers entered the immedidate lands of St Andrew. It is also close to the high point on the medieval road from which pilgrims would catch their first sight of their destination. Taylor with Márkus ii, 203-4.
Relationships with other parishes
Within Kemback, parish
Names
2 head-names linked to this place ?Fons Sancti Andreae
Head name
Fons Sancti Andreae
Place
St Andrews Well, well, Kemback
Certainty that this name applies to this place
Certain
The status of this name is
Hypothetical
Is this a current OS form? ?
No
Is this the original referent of the place?
Yes
Is the association of this name to this object hypothetical?
Yes
Fontem Sancti Andree 1263, Barrow 1974
Historic formFontem Sancti Andree Head nameFons Sancti Andreae PlaceSt Andrews Well, well, Kemback Certainty that this name applies to this placeCertain SourceBarrow 1974, no. 7 Date of citation1263 x 1264 |
Source code
Barrow 1974
Author
G.W.S. Barrow
Source title
Some East Fife Documents of the 12th & 13th centuries
Editors
G.W.S. Barrow
Secondary Title
The Scottish Tradition
Pages
23-43
Year
1974
Saints in this place-name
Andrew the apostle (certain)
Andrew (ns) (certain)
St Andrews Well
Head name
St Andrews Well
Place
St Andrews Well, well, Kemback
Certainty that this name applies to this place
Certain
The status of this name is
Hypothetical
Is this a current OS form? ?
No
Is this the original referent of the place?
Yes
Is the association of this name to this object hypothetical?
Yes
Saints in this place-name
Andrew (ns) (certain)
Andrew the apostle (certain)
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