Craik, Scottish Borders
Craik is a hamlet in Craik Forest, by the Airhouse Burn in the Scottish Borders area of Scotland, close to Roberton, Scottish Borders (grid reference NT348084).
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View towards Craik
The area is renowned for its red squirrel population, and for its Roman history.
Etymology
Craik seems in origin straightforwardly to be the Cumbric word *creic 'rock'.[1]
gollark: Some people somehow wrote something like six pages and I don't know how.
gollark: We had to do two essays in two hours for an English mock exam, which was very unpleasant.
gollark: When I have to write essays, I generally just end up procrastinating for ages, then slowly getting at least vaguely sensible stuff written until I get something vaguely near the word count.
gollark: Oh, you mean coming up with actual text to write, not handwriting.
gollark: Even non-cursive is annoying.
References
- Bethany Fox, 'The P-Celtic Place-Names of North-East England and South-East Scotland', The Heroic Age, 10 (2007), http://www.heroicage.org/issues/10/fox.html (appendix at http://www.heroicage.org/issues/10/fox-appendix.html).
External links
- Old Roads of Scotland: Craik
- Craik: trails for cyclists, walkers and horse riders
- Forestry commission: Craik and Craik Forest
- Borders Disability Forum: Craik Forest
- The Southern Reporter, February 2006: Bitter battle of Craik ends
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