Talk:Gorthleck

Gorthleck vs. Lyne of Gorthleck

What is the difference between the two, if one encompasses the other, and both are unincorporated communities? ZFT (talk) 00:19, 7 October 2015 (UTC)

@ZFT: I think Lyne means pond or loch in Gealic, so that would have been owned by laird of some type at some point. As time passed likely built some houses for his workers that became a village, some other laird next door also built some house for his workers became a village. As water is important for cattle, sheep, ducks, horses and so on, the growth of the villages would have been close to an available water source as part of the common land, and eventually they would merge and names got simpler as time passed. scope_creep^Talk 10:21, 18 August 2019 (UTC)