Nannie’s Knowe
Nannie’s Knowe NBN R NO449018 1 374 5m
Nannie’s Knowe 1855 OS 6 inch 1st edn
pn Nannie + Sc knowe
Described by OS Name Book in the 1850s as ‘A small conical-shaped knoll on the farm of Meikle Dumbarnie’ (79, 5), it allegedly got its name ‘because a few years ago a woman named Nanny was found drowned within the sea-mark near this knoll’ (97, 53).
This place-name appeared in printed volume 2