Rhind Hill
Rhind Hill LSL R NO256039 1 373 223m
Rhind Hill 1850s OS Name Book 91, 11 [‘a small hill on the farm of Foremount, it is known by the name of Rhind Hill to the occupier and the people in its vicinity, but the people living further away call it Foremount Hill’]
Rhind Hill 1856 OS 6 inch 1st edn
? en Rhind + SSE hill
The existing name may be from G rinn ‘point, promontory’, which may refer to the hill itself. For a discussion of this fairly wide-spread topographical term, see Watson 1926, 495. It occurs in Fife in Rhynd SLN (PNF 1) and Rhynd LEU (PNF 4).
Locally it is used with the definite article the, pronounced /ðəˈraindhɪl/.[199]
This place-name appeared in printed volume 2