Berryhill Farms

Lands of Berryhill

Sc berry + Sc holl

Meaning of the Word: Berryhill

‘Hollow where berries grow’. The change from holl to hill is late, first appearing on OS 6 inch 1st edn.

Records on the Lands of Berryhill:

  • Berryholl 1559 x 1565 RMS iv no. 1631 [grant by John, abbot of Lindores, of 8 oxgates of lands of Grangia and Berryholl to Alexander Ballingall and his wife Agnes; part of lands of Lindores Abbey]
  • the Berieholl c.1560 s Assumption, 33
  • Berryholl 1590 x 1599 Pont MS 54B
  • Berrieholl 1600 RMS vi no. 1032 [in barony of Grange of Lindores]
  • Berriehoill 1617 RMS vii no. 1732 [to Andrew Lord Gray, ‘three ploughlands of Grange of Lindores called Berryhill’ (trium aratrorum Grangie de Lundoiris nuncupatorum Berriehoill)]
  • Berriholl c.1636 x 1652 Gordon MS 54A
  • (Philp portionar of) Berriehoil 1637 Retours (Fife) no. 545
  • Berriehoil 1637 Retours (Fife) no. 545 [8 oxgates of lands of Grange called]
  • Berryhol 1642 Gordon MS Fife
  • Berihol 1654 Blaeu (Pont) East Fife
  • Berryholl 1654 Blaeu (Gordon) Fife
  • Baryhole 1753 Roy sheet 18, 2
  • Berry Hole 1775 Ainslie/Fife
  • Berryhole 1827 Ainslie/East Fife
  • Berryhole 1828 SGF
  • Berryhill 1856 OS 6 inch 1st edn

 

This place-name appeared in printed volume 4 in Fife Place-name Data Project.