Fife Place-name Data

Auchtermuchty Burn

Auchtermuchty Burn AMY R NO257101 40m

    Mill Burn 1722 Geog. Coll. i, 295 [see discussion]
    Auchtermuchty Burn 1856 OS 6 inch 1st edn

en Auchtermuchty + Sc burn

The burn gives a street in the town of Auchtermuchty its name: Burnside.

    The 1722 reference to the burn as Mill Burn refers to its lower reaches, where the Barroway Burn (q.v. Section 1, above) flows into it, before the Auchtermuchty Burn flows finally into the River Eden at the above NGR.

This place-name appeared in printed volume 4

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