Fife Place-name Data

Middlebank

Middlebank DFL S NT126846 1 394 55m SOF

Middlebank 1775 Ainslie/Fife
Middle Bank 1828 SGF [with Sunny Bank to the south-east and Middle Dean to the north-east.]

Sc middle + Sc bank

Not on Blaeu (Gordon) Fife, 1654. A division of Mastertown DFL, the bank of the name is probably the same feature referred to in *Lethmacdungal (which see), the earlier name of Mastertown, if leth is indeed ‘hill-side’ and not ‘half’.

This place-name appeared in printed volume 1

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