Locations in Sri Lanka with a Scottish name

Main article: List of Scottish place names in other countries

This is a list of placenames in Scotland which have subsequently been given to parts of Sri Lanka by Scottish planters. Almost without exception Scottish place names in Sri Lanka occur either in the Hill Country plantations or in Colombo.

As the Scottish coffee and tea planters, including Sri Lanka's first tea planter James Taylor, settled in the country, they named their plantations after their home towns in Scotland.Charles Hay Cameron and his sons named their estates after Lochiel and Erroll their ancestral peerages, as well as Moray, Forres, Glencairn and St Regulus. In Colombo, places were named after Sri Lanka's British governors including Thomas Maitland.

Hill Country

Abbey Craig
Aberdeen Falls
Argyle
Arthur's Seat
Balmoral
Banff
Barcaple
Blair Atholl
Blinkbonney
Braemore
Braemar
Caledonia
Camnethan
Caskieben
Clydesdale
Craig
Craigie Lea
Cullen
Dalhousie
Dunbar
Dunsinane
Dunkeld
Edinburgh
Elgin - named after Elgin, a major town of Moray in Scotland.
Erroll
Eskadale
Fordyce
Forres
Frotoft
Glasgow
Glassaugh
Gleneagles
Goat fell
Hatton
Highland
Holyrood
Iona
Kinross
Kirkoswald
Leitch
Lammermoor
Liddesdale
Logie
Lonach
Macduff
Mayfield
Melfort
Midlothian
Morar
Moray
Mount Vernon
Nairn
Newburgh
Oliphant
Panmure
Portree
Robgill
Rosneath
Relugas
St Andrew's
St Clair's
Sanquhar
Strathdon
Strathspey
Sutherland
Tillicoultry
Urie
Ythanside

Low Country

Clyde
Culloden
Dalkeith
Lauderdale
Perth

Colombo

Kinross Avenue
Maitland Crescent

Notes

^ Senanayake 2004: 1

References

Senanayake, Chanaka (2004). Sri Lankawe Diya Eli (in Sinhala) (1st ed.). Sooriya Publishers. ISBN 955-8892-06-8.

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