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This needs to establish what Inveresk actually is: is it a village? suburb? district? Joe D (t) 16:05, 9 Jun 2005 (UTC)
Can someone, who knows about it, stick some info and links / sources about the Roman settlements nearby? Im interested in knowing more. Thanks ΤΕΡΡΑΣΙΔΙΩΣ( Ταλκ) 22:08, 31 August 2010 (UTC)
Presumably it is accepted that Inveresk means the confluence of the Esk or the mouth of the Esk. The confluence of a river with the sea or a firth is synonymous with the mouth of the river. It follows, since there is no other outflow of the Esk, that it must be to the Firth of Forth. If there is a problem with the idea of confluence, the suffix of the composite name is taken from the smaller stream such as Inverurie which is the confluence of the Urie with the Don. There is no larger river such that the Esk would give its name to a confluence of rivers. Again, it must be the Firth of Forth.
Charters to Dunfermline Abbey refer to Lesser Inveresk and Greater Inveresk. It seems that the name Inveresk covered a larger area that simply the village. A confirmation charter by James II mentions Greater Inveresk with its fishings, probably a connection with the Firth. It would not be unnatural for the village beside the parish church of the district to take on the name Inveresk. 92.237.196.80 ( talk) 15:44, 3 July 2012 (UTC)
Does the town have to be at the exact place of the confluence? Old Inverness isn't, for example. Or the name could be transposed, for example Inverleith was an old name for Leith but is now used for a district far upstream. 77.99.107.206 ( talk) 09:21, 4 July 2012 (UTC)
A.D. Mills' A Dictionary of British Place-Names (
https://archive.org/details/dictionaryofengl0000mill_u9o6) s.n. Esk has a c.1200 form, Ask, meaning "water", from British *isca. Mills also has several places in Inver-:
Victor Watts, The Cambridge Dictionary of English Place-Names, Cambridge Univ. Press (2004) doesn't have any of the Inver- place-names, but s.n. Esk (p. 218):
Watts Refs:
-- Gunnora ( talk) 16:13, 21 October 2022 (UTC)
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This needs to establish what Inveresk actually is: is it a village? suburb? district? Joe D (t) 16:05, 9 Jun 2005 (UTC)
Can someone, who knows about it, stick some info and links / sources about the Roman settlements nearby? Im interested in knowing more. Thanks ΤΕΡΡΑΣΙΔΙΩΣ( Ταλκ) 22:08, 31 August 2010 (UTC)
Presumably it is accepted that Inveresk means the confluence of the Esk or the mouth of the Esk. The confluence of a river with the sea or a firth is synonymous with the mouth of the river. It follows, since there is no other outflow of the Esk, that it must be to the Firth of Forth. If there is a problem with the idea of confluence, the suffix of the composite name is taken from the smaller stream such as Inverurie which is the confluence of the Urie with the Don. There is no larger river such that the Esk would give its name to a confluence of rivers. Again, it must be the Firth of Forth.
Charters to Dunfermline Abbey refer to Lesser Inveresk and Greater Inveresk. It seems that the name Inveresk covered a larger area that simply the village. A confirmation charter by James II mentions Greater Inveresk with its fishings, probably a connection with the Firth. It would not be unnatural for the village beside the parish church of the district to take on the name Inveresk. 92.237.196.80 ( talk) 15:44, 3 July 2012 (UTC)
Does the town have to be at the exact place of the confluence? Old Inverness isn't, for example. Or the name could be transposed, for example Inverleith was an old name for Leith but is now used for a district far upstream. 77.99.107.206 ( talk) 09:21, 4 July 2012 (UTC)
A.D. Mills' A Dictionary of British Place-Names (
https://archive.org/details/dictionaryofengl0000mill_u9o6) s.n. Esk has a c.1200 form, Ask, meaning "water", from British *isca. Mills also has several places in Inver-:
Victor Watts, The Cambridge Dictionary of English Place-Names, Cambridge Univ. Press (2004) doesn't have any of the Inver- place-names, but s.n. Esk (p. 218):
Watts Refs:
-- Gunnora ( talk) 16:13, 21 October 2022 (UTC)
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