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Carcant

Summary

Carcant is a small settlement and a wind farm, near Heriot in the Scottish Borders area of Scotland.

Carcant, a collection of houses in a secluded glen off Heriot Water
Carcant, old woods

A famous inhabitant of Carcant was Eric Liddell.

Etymology edit

Carcant is etymologically a Cumbric place-name. The first element is cognate with Welsh caer 'fortification'. The second might be can 'white', in which case the name means 'white fort'; but more likely it is cant 'edge of a circle', in this context probably meaning 'district, region, edge, border', thus giving 'fort of the region/border'.[1]

See also edit

References edit

  1. ^ Bethany Fox, 'The P-Celtic Place-Names of North-East England and South-East Scotland', The Heroic Age, 10 (2007), http://www.heroicage.org/issues/10/fox.html (appendix at http://www.heroicage.org/issues/10/fox-appendix.html).

External links edit

 
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Carcant.
  • Renewables Map: Carcant, Heriot, Scottish Borders
  • Scottish Natural Heritage: Windfarms in Scotland (March 2010[permanent dead link]
  • RCAHMS record of Carcant
  • RCAHMS record of Carcant Windfarm
  • British Listed Buildings: Carcant Bridge over Carcant Burn
  • Eric Liddell Image Gallery

55°45′43″N 3°00′47″W / 55.762°N 3.013°W / 55.762; -3.013