Beugh Burn
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Beugh Burn
Image: © Ian Dodds Taken: 10 Feb 2021
Looking downstream, shortly after it emerges from a pipe underneath the road leading to Uphall Industrial Park. The pipe is there as the burn runs underneath Stankards Bing, a large, now tree-planted spoil heap resulting from production at Uphall Oil Works, which used to sit on the same spot as the industrial estate. I have given up trying to figure out what Beugh means. There are lots of theories, ie guesses, online, but I do think that trying to find out what a one syllable place-name once meant, especially if it only has one proper consonant, is a near impossible task.
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Image Location
Latitude
55.923875
Longitude
-3.496225