Locations in Sri Lanka with a Scottish name
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.
Elgin Falls
Hill Country
- Abbey Craig
- Aberdeen
- 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
- 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
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