Crossford
Crossford DFL S NT066865 1 394 45m
Crosfurde 1587 Pitfirrane Writs no. 303 [associated with the lands of Knockhouse (Knokkes)]
Crossford 1606 Pitfirrane Writs no. 437 [part of the lands of Knockhouse (Knokhous)]
Crocefuird 1619 Laing Chrs. no. 1818
Crocefoord 1646 Henderson 1865, 18
Crossfoord 1729 Pitfirrane Writs no. 711 [the Andersons, feuars in Crossford]
Cross Ford 1753 Roy sheet 17, 5
Crossford 1775 Ainslie/Fife
Sc cross + Sc ford
‘Ford with a cross beside it’. The ford must have been over the burn now known as the Crossford Burn, which joins the Lyne Burn south of Keavil Farm at East Lodge (of Pitliver House), NT067856 (all OS Pathf. names). The NGR given for Crossford is for where the main road west from Dunfermline crosses the Crossford Burn. It lay on the lands of Knockhouse DFL.
/krɔs ford/
This place-name appeared in printed volume 1