Shooting Seat at Balgreen Farm
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Shooting Seat at Balgreen Farm
Image: © Ian Dodds Taken: 6 Feb 2021
The seat isn't immediately obvious, but the ladder to it can be seen clearly, leaning against one of the trees lining the right of the field. Scottish toponymy - the study of place names in Scotland - is a bewildering subject. 'Bal', it is agreed, derives from the Gaelic 'baile', which means farm, or a settlement, which in the past always formed around farms. However the 'green' in the name could just mean green, or be an anglicisation of the Gaelic word 'greine' which means sunny.
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Image Location
Latitude
55.856337
Longitude
-3.508006