Scotland Scotland (, ) is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. Covering the northern third of the island of Great Britain, mainland Scotland has a border with England to the southeast and is otherwise surrounded by the Atlantic Ocean to the ...

and northern England, a Linn is a geographical water feature, a watercourse that has cut through a shelf of hard rock creating a narrow (usually), steep-sided crevice (

fracture Fracture is the separation of an object or material into two or more pieces under the action of stress. The fracture of a solid usually occurs due to the development of certain displacement discontinuity surfaces within the solid. If a displa ...

) through which it runs. Typically one named after a river or area can have application even for more than one such feature. The photograph of the

Linn of Dee The River Dee ( gd, Uisge Dhè) is a river in Aberdeenshire, Scotland. It rises in the Cairngorms and flows through southern Aberdeenshire to reach the North Sea at Aberdeen. The area it passes through is known as Deeside, or Royal Deeside in ...

illustrates the attributes of a typical 'Linn'. In ''Gordon (1925)'' the author describing a walk down ''Glen Avon'' in the Cairngorms mentions two ''Linns'' on the ''River Avon'' - first: Second: A linn may also refer to a waterfall or a pool at the foot of a waterfall,Free Dictionary.com - Linn
/ref> with the derivation a confusion of

Scots Gaelic Scottish Gaelic ( gd, Gàidhlig ), also known as Scots Gaelic and Gaelic, is a Goidelic language (in the Celtic branch of the Indo-European language family) native to the Gaels of Scotland. As a Goidelic language, Scottish Gaelic, as well as ...

''linne'' (pool) and

Old English Old English (, ), or Anglo-Saxon, is the earliest recorded form of the English language, spoken in England and southern and eastern Scotland in the early Middle Ages. It was brought to Great Britain by Anglo-Saxon settlement of Britain, Anglo ...

(torrent).

Sources

* {{Cite book , title=The Cairngorm Hills Of Scotland , first=Seton , last=Gordon , publisher=Cassell and Company , location=London, England. , year=1925

References

''Gazetteer for Scotland''
"Glossary:L". Retrieved 2 January 2008
England's Rock Art - Roughting Linn, Northumberland
Notes: Fluvial landforms Geography of Scotland Geography of England