Fife Place-name Data

Blinkbonny

Blinkbonny ABE S NO271185 1 362 90m NEF

    Blinkbony 1827 Ainslie/East Fife
    Winkbonnie 1828 SGF
    Blinkbonny 1855 OS 6 inch 1st edn

Sc blinkbonnie or winkbonnie .

This is the Sc or SSE equivalent of Bellevue or Belvidere, ‘fine or bonnie view’. Note the variation between blink and wink in the early forms. It was formerly called Bogton q.v.

    OS Pathf. also shows Blinkbonny Lodge c.600 m to the south-east.

This place-name appeared in printed volume 4

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