Broomieside

Broomieside DGY S NT151867 1 394 50m

Bron side 1753 Roy sheet 17, 5
Broomyside 1756 RHP3800
Broomyside 1775 Ainslie/Fife
Broomy-Side 1796 RHP3818

Sc broomy + Sc side

‘Hillside where broom grows, hillside covered with broom’. It lay on an old road running east to west, and marked on a late eighteenth-century estate map of Fordell as the road to Dunfermline (RHP3818).

This place-name appeared in printed volume 1