Locations in Sri Lanka with a Scottish name explained
See main article: List of Scottish place names in other countries. This is a list of placenames in Scotland which have subsequently been given to parts of Sri Lanka by Scottish planters. Almost without exception Scottish place names in Sri Lanka occur either in the Hill Country plantations or in Colombo.
As the Scottish coffee and tea planters, including Sri Lanka's first tea planter James Taylor, settled in the country, they named their plantations after their home towns in Scotland.Charles Hay Cameron and his sons named their estates after Lochiel and Erroll their ancestral peerages, as well as Moray, Forres, Glencairn and St Regulus. In Colombo, places were named after Sri Lanka's British governors including Thomas Maitland.
Hill Country
- Abbey Craig
- Aberdeen Falls[1]
- Argyle
- Arthur's Seat
- Balmoral
- Banff
- Barcaple
- Blair Atholl
- Blinkbonney
- Braemore
- Braemar
- Caledonia
- Camnethan
- Caskieben
- Clydesdale
- Craig
- Craigie Lea
- Cullen
- Dalhousie
- Dunbar
- Dunsinane
- Dunkeld
- Edinburgh
- Elgin - named after Elgin, a major town of Moray in Scotland.
- Erroll
- Eskadale
- Fordyce
- Forres
- Frotoft
- Glasgow
- Glassaugh
- Gleneagles
- Goat fell
- Hatton
- Highland
- Holyrood
- Iona
- Kinross
- Kirkoswald
- Leitch
- Lammermoor
- Liddesdale
- Logie
- Lonach
- Macduff
- Mayfield
- Melfort
- Midlothian
- Morar
- Moray
- Mount Vernon
- Nairn
- Newburgh
- Oliphant
- Panmure
- Portree
- Robgill
- Rosneath
- Relugas
- St Andrew's
- St Clair's
- Sanquhar
- Strathdon
- Strathspey
- Sutherland
- Tillicoultry
- Urie
- Ythanside
Low Country
- Clyde
- Culloden
- Dalkeith
- Lauderdale
- Perth
Colombo
- Kinross Avenue
- Maitland Crescent
References
- Book: Senanayake, Chanaka . 2004 . Sri Lankawe Diya Eli. 1st . Sooriya Publishers . 955-8892-06-8 . Sena04. si.
Notes and References
- [#Sena04|Senanayake 2004]
