Spango Burn
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Spango Burn
Image: © Alan O'Dowd Taken: 11 Jun 2014
Looking towards the farm of Spango. According to Peter Drummond's 'Scottish Hill Names', this unusual name derives from the Scots word spangie, meaning to spring or catapult into the air (possibly a reference to the way that the other side of Spango Hill rises steeply).
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Image Location
Latitude
55.449238
Longitude
-3.855789