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Craik, Scottish Borders

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Coordinates: 55°21′53″N 3°01′49″W / 55.3647°N 3.0302°W / 55.3647; -3.0302
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Craik is a hamlet in Craik Forest, by the Airhouse Burn in the Scottish Borders area of Scotland, close to Roberton, Scottish Borders (grid reference NT348084).

The area is renowned for its red squirrel population, and for its Roman history.

Etymology

Craik seems in origin straightforwardly to be the Cumbric word *creic 'rock'.[1]

See also

References

  1. ^ Bethany Fox, 'The P-Celtic Place-Names of North-East England and South-East Scotland', The Heroic Age, 10 (2007), http://www.heroicage.org/issues/10/fox.html (appendix at http://www.heroicage.org/issues/10/fox-appendix.html).

55°21′53″N 3°01′49″W / 55.3647°N 3.0302°W / 55.3647; -3.0302


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