Saints in Scottish Place-Names
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Spott, modern parish
Grid reference
NT 673 755 (accurate position)
Six-figure easting & northing
367300 675500
Latitude
55.97142768199839
Longitude
-2.5239759186882655
Nearby places
St John's Well, well, Spott (0.09 miles)
Oswald Dean, Duns (1.17 miles)
St Bey's Church, Dunbar (1.93 miles)
Dunbar, parish (1.93 miles)
Stenton, modern parish, aka Pitcox (1.99 miles)
Object Classification
Parish (extant in 1975)
Is linear feature?
No
Relationships with other parishes
Within Dunbar, parish (formerly)
Relationships with other places
Contains St John's Well, well, Spott
Parish details
Spott was a chapel of Dunbar until after the Reformation (Cowan 1967, 186).
Parish TLA
SPO
County
East Lothian
Medieval diocese
St Andrews
Names
1 head-name linked to this place ?Spott
This is not a hagiotoponym.Head name
Spott
Place
Spott, modern 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?
Maybe
Is the association of this name to this object hypothetical?
No
Spote 1560, Assumption
Historic formSpote This is not a hagiotoponym. Head nameSpott PlaceSpott, modern parish Certainty that this name applies to this placeCertain SourceAssumption, 171 Date of citation1560 x 1570 Feature named in sourceparsonage |
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
Place-name data
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