Loanhead

Loanhead KWY S NO351047 1 373 195m SEF

Loan Head 1775 Ainslie/Fife
Loanhead 1856 OS 6 inch 1st edn

Sc loan + Sc heid

‘The (top) end of the loan or cattle-track’. The loan in question is presumably the small road now running north from Bonnybank, past Loanhead, which stands near the highest point of the road, and then heads north-west towards Devon Common.

This place-name appeared in printed volume 2