West Muircambus
West Muircambus KCQ S NO471013 1 374 10m SOF
Moorcamus Mill 1775 Ainslie/Fife [with mill symbol]
West Farm of Muircambus 1779 RHP3918 [John Anstruther, Bart.]
Muircambus Mill 1828 SGF [with mill symbol]
Muircambus Mill 1855 OS 6 inch 1st edn
West Farm 1870 Elie Disposition fo 45r [‘All and Haill that part of the lands of Muirycambus called the West Farm or South Farm as the same was formerly possessed by James Beveridge and the Mill and the Mill Lands, with multures and sequels of the said Mill as formerly possessed by John Robertson and Alexander Greig’]
Mill 1928 OS 1 inch
SSE west + en Muircambus
It would seem that beside Muircambus Mill (perhaps also known as *Cockle Mill, q.v.), a farm was created in the late eighteenth century which became known as West Muircambus. The affix ‘West’ is puzzling, as it is in fact south and slightly east of Muircambus itself, an anomaly reflected in the name for these lands in the 1870 entry, which varies between West Farm and South Farm.
There are still remains of a mill at the site, known locally as West Mill.[195]
This place-name appeared in printed volume 3