Place-Names of the Galloway Glens

Glenfoot

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‘The foot or bottom part of the glen’. The settlement has vanished, though it was a significant farm (4 marks in 1531), but the name persists in Glenfoot Hill, and the NGR given is that of the vicinity of Glenfoot Hill.

As Glenfoot Hill (q.v.) is recorded as having been part of the lands of Barend in c.1850 (OS1/20/58/39), we can assume that the farm of Glenfoot was probably swallowed up by Barend.

The glen at whose foot Glenfoot stood seems therefore to have been the glen of the Barend Burn.

Parish: Parton [PAR] (KCB), Classification code: Settlement (S)

Elements: Sc glen + Sc fute Show more detail

Sc glen, Certainty: 1, Role: Specific, Number: Singular, Part of Speech: N, Description: 'A (narrow, steep-sided) mountain valley traversed by a river or stream' la12- (CSD2).
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Sc fute, Certainty: 1, Role: Generic, Number: Singular, Part of Speech: N, Description: 'A foot', often used of the lowest part of some feature - Burnfoot, Hillfoot etc. Also Sc fit, foot. See SSE foot also.

Grid Reference: NX699729, Certainty: 3, Latitude: 55.033503447737, Longitude: -4.0358525778816, Altitude: 173m, Landranger sheets: n/a
This place-name is obsolete.

Glenfute 1531
king grants to John Glendinwin, son and heir apparent of Ninian Glendinwin, and to Elizabeth Gordoun his wife, 4 marks of the lands of Glenfute, 5 marks of Arnmannach, 2½ marks of Fauldbey in the barony of Partoun
Source:
RMS (Registrum Magni Sigilli Regum Scotorum: Register of the Great Seal of Scotland), Author: John Maitland Thomson et al., Published: Edinburgh [11 volumes.]
Glenfoet 1654
Not shown on Blaeu (Middle Galloway)
Source:
Blaeu (Eastern Galloway) (Praefectura Kircubriensis quae Gallovidiae maxime orientalis pars est. The Stuartrie of Kircubright, the most easterlie part of Galloway / auct. Tim. Pont), Author: Joan Blaeu, Published: Amsterdam, (1654) Find out more about this source
Glenfute 1656
Margaret Glendinning; ‘3 merkland of Glenfute’
Source:
Retours (KCB) (Inquisitiondum ad Capellam Domini Regis Retornatorum, que in publicis archivis Scotiae adhuc servantur, Abbreviatio), no. 270, Author: T. Thomson (ed.), Published: Edinburgh, (1811-1816 (three volumes)) [References are to the Kirkcudbrightshire section of the Retours.]

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