This is a list of placenames in
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 ...
which have subsequently been given to parts of
Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka (, ; si, ශ්රී ලංකා, Śrī Laṅkā, translit-std=ISO (); ta, இலங்கை, Ilaṅkai, translit-std=ISO ()), formerly known as Ceylon and officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, is an ...
by Scottish
planters
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. Almost without exception Scottish place names in Sri Lanka occur either in the Hill Country plantations or in
Colombo
Colombo ( ; si, කොළඹ, translit=Koḷam̆ba, ; ta, கொழும்பு, translit=Koḻumpu, ) is the executive and judicial capital and largest city of Sri Lanka by population. According to the Brookings Institution, Colombo me ...
.
As the Scottish coffee and tea planters, including Sri Lanka's first tea planter
James Taylor
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, settled in the country, they named their plantations after their home towns in
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 ...
.
Charles Hay Cameron and his sons named their estates after
Lochiel and
Erroll their ancestral peerages, as well as
Moray
Moray () gd, Moireibh or ') is one of the 32 local government council areas of Scotland. It lies in the north-east of the country, with a coastline on the Moray Firth, and borders the council areas of Aberdeenshire and Highland.
Between 1975 ...
,
Forres
Forres (; gd, Farrais) is a town and former royal burgh in the north of Scotland on the Moray coast, approximately northeast of Inverness and west of Elgin. Forres has been a winner of the Scotland in Bloom award on several occasions. There ...
,
Glencairn and
St Regulus
Saint Regulus or Saint Rule (Old Irish: ''Riagal'') was a legendary 4th century monk or bishop of Patras, Greece who in AD 345 is said to have fled to Scotland with the bones of Saint Andrew, and deposited them at St Andrews. His feast day in th ...
. In Colombo, places were named after Sri Lanka's British governors including
Thomas Maitland.
Hill Country
* Abbey Craig
*
Aberdeen Falls
Aberdeen Falls is a high waterfall on the Kehelgamu Oya near Ginigathena, in the Nuwara Eliya District of Sri Lanka. Aberdeen is named after Aberdeen, the third largest city in Scotland and the capital of Aberdeenshire. Kehelgamu Oya is a maj ...
[ Senanayake 2004: 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
Moray () gd, Moireibh or ') is one of the 32 local government council areas of Scotland. It lies in the north-east of the country, with a coastline on the Moray Firth, and borders the council areas of Aberdeenshire and Highland.
Between 1975 ...
in
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 ...
.
* 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
Notes
References
*
{{British Ceylon period topics
Scottish place names
Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka (, ; si, ශ්රී ලංකා, Śrī Laṅkā, translit-std=ISO (); ta, இலங்கை, Ilaṅkai, translit-std=ISO ()), formerly known as Ceylon and officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, is an ...
Scottish place names
Sri Lanka, Scottish place names in