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List of names as written Various modes of spelling Authorities for spelling Situation Description remarks
TARBOLTON [parish] Torbolton
Tarbolton
Tarbolton
Tarbolton
Torbolton
Statistical Account
Paterson's History of Ayrshire
Johnston' County Map
County Voters' List.
Mr Cooper of Failford
022 ; 027 ; 028 ; 033 ; 034 "Torbolton or Tarbolton, also in charters written Thorbolton, the name both of the parish & village, appears descriptive of the situation of the village, & of the use to which the beautiful round hill close to which the village is built,was anciently applied. Tor means a round hill, on which Thor was worshipped. It has also a more general signification, and denotes any round hill, as is ordinarily the import of the word when applied to places in Britain. Thor or Tor of the Goths is the same God, whose name receives a different pronunciation from the Celts, forms the first syllable of the names of many celebrated persons and places, as Tarquin, Tar-entum, Tar-tary, Tor, or more correctly Thor, is the Saxon, Tar, the Celtic pronunciation of a word descriptive of the most remarkable and beautiful object in the neighbourhood, the hill, mentioned by Burns in his Poem of Dr. [Doctor] Thornbook - 'I had gaen round about the hill.' Bol is the name of the god of the Druids. Some superstitious sites, anciently [Continued]

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