Fife Place-name Data

Denbrae

Denbrae LOG S NO390187 1 362 95m

    Denbrae 1512 RMS ii no. 3715 [formerly called Nether Kedlock LOG, q.v.]
    Denbrae 1622 RMS viii no. 370 [lands of Nether Kedlock called Denbrae]
    Denbrae 1623 RMS viii no. 469 [Nether Kedlock alias Denbrae]
    Dumbrae 1633 RMS viii no. 2221 [lands of Nether Kedlock alias Denbrae]
    Deanbrae 1643 Retours (Fife) no. 648 [Nether Kedlock alias Denbrae]  Dunbreach 1654 Blaeu (Gordon) Fife
    (Watson of) Dumbrae 1674 Retours (Fife) no. 1137
    Dumbrae 1674 Retours (Fife) no. 1137 [Nether Kedlock called Denbrae]
    Dambrae 1827 Ainslie/East Fife

Sc den + Sc brae

‘(Settlement on) the brae or slope of or above a den or steep valley’. The eponymous den is presumably that of the small Fingask Burn, which forms the boundary between Denbrae (formerly Nether Kedlock LOG) and Fingask DAE.

This place-name appeared in printed volume 4

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