Fife Place-name Data :: Hazelton Walls

Hazelton Walls

Hazelton Walls KLM S NO338219 1 351 155m

    Hazletonwalls 1753 Roy
    Hasselton Walls 1775 Ainslie/Fife
    Hazelton Walls 1855 OS 6 inch 1st edn

en *Hazelton + Sc wall or SSE wall

‘Wells or walls of or associated with *Hazelton’, Sc hazel, OSc has(s)il(l) or hesill ‘hazel’ + Sc toun ‘farm’. The second element is probably Sc wall ‘well’.

OS Name Book (40, 40) situates this settlement (‘a row of 3 dwelling houses and four detached ones’) on the Estate of Mountquhanie and in KLM.

This place-name appeared in printed volume 4