Scotland Scotland (, ) is a Countries of the United Kingdom, country that is part of the United Kingdom. Covering the northern third of the island of Great Britain, mainland Scotland has a Anglo-Scottish border, border with England to the southeast ...

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) 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 illustrates the attributes of a typical 'Linn'. In ''Gordon (1925)'' the author describing a walk down ''Glen Avon'' in the

Cairngorms The Cairngorms ( gd, Am Monadh Ruadh) are a mountain range in the eastern Highlands of Scotland closely associated with the mountain Cairn Gorm. The Cairngorms became part of Scotland's second national park (the Cairngorms National Park) on 1 S ...

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 ''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 settlers in the mid-5th c ...

(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