Fife Place-name Data

Summer Lizard

Summer Lizard # AMY S NO2212 4

    una lie daill in lie Somer-lesour 1558 RMS iv no. 1288 [to John Paterson, ‘alias the Snowdon Herald’ (alias Snawdoun heraldo); Sc daill ‘portion, division’]
    Symber-leisour 1616 RMS vii no. 1397 col. 7
    Symerleasure 1663 RMS xi no. 476 [3 rigs of the lands of *Buistslands lying in the shed (division of land) called Summer Lizard]
    Seymerleasure 1663 RMS xi no. 476
    Summer Lizard 1799 Sasines no. 5425 [‘lands in Summer Lizard called Sibbald’s Lands’]
    Summer Lizard 1809 Sasines no. 8521

Sc simmer + Sc lizour

‘Summer grazing (land)’. For discussion of other names implying that land is used for summer grazing, see Bowhouse CLS, below.

This place-name appeared in printed volume 4

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