Caerlanrig

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Caerlanrig
Roxburghshire
Carlenrig Farm near Teviothead (geograph 1882304).jpg
Carlenrig Farm
Location
Grid reference: NT399048
Location: 55°20’1"N, 2°56’56"W
Data
Post town: Hawick
Postcode: TD9
Dialling code: 01450
Local Government
Council: Scottish Borders

Caerlanrig is a hamlet in the parish of Teviothead in Roxburghshire. It sits beside the River Teviot, six miles north-east of that river's source, and ten miles south-west of Hawick.

Name

The first element of the name 'Caerlanrig' is probably from the extinct Cumbric language, cair meaning 'fortification' (which appears in Welsh as caer). The second element is generally taken as Cumbric lanerx, meaning 'clearing' (as the Welsh llanerch).[1] Another suggestion is that the name is Cumbric cair with the Old English lang ('long') and hrycg ('ridge').[2]

Border reiver

The village is best known for being the site where John Armstrong of Gilnockie, notorious member of Armstrong family and brother of Thomas, Laird of Mangerton was captured and hanged by King James V for being a reiver.

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References

  1. Coates, Richard: Invisible Britons: the view from toponomastics, in George Broderick and Paul Cavill, eds, Language contact in the place-names of Britain and Ireland. Nottingham: English Place-Name Society, 41-53,
  2. Bethany Fox:, 10 (2007), http://www.heroicage.org/issues/10/fox.html 'The P-Celtic Place-Names of North-East England and South-East Scotland', The Heroic Age]