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.