Housing in woodland near Bareless
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Housing in woodland near Bareless
Image: © Barbara Carr Taken: 14 Sep 2013
Bareless is an odd name, I have had no luck in finding some erudite derivation of its meaning, so am having a stab myself. 'Barr' in Scottish Gaelic is hill or ridge, 'bar/ber' in Northern England usually means 'barley'... 'less' is most likely historically 'leas/lees' as in 'fields' ... 'lios' (usually pronounced 'liss') is Scottish Gaelic for 'enclosure/garden', so I reckon we have fields/enclosure (perhaps of barley) on a hill. Waiting to be shot down in flames :O) .... I don't have any specific training in linguistics, but I am old enough to have done Latin in school, and have tried to teach myself Gaelic, and - well, I just like the history of words and names.
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Image Location
Latitude
55.640431
Longitude
-2.199028