Parley Brae
Parley Brae O 1
Parley Brae 1856 OS 6 inch 1st edn
Sc parlie + Sc brae
‘A brae or steep road where parleys or meetings take or have taken place’; see Elements Glossary under Sc parlie. It is found also in the better documented Parley Hill, a street-name in Culross (q.v.).
OS Name Book 92, 33 describes it as: ‘An elevation in the public road from Lady’s Square[245] to Markinch near Sythrum and immediately north of a wooden bridge over the River Leven’ (1854).
The NGR is of approximately the mid-point of the brae.
This place-name appeared in printed volume 2