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Place name County Entry Source Bourtie Aberdeenshire Fala, to mark the spot where he would lie; and she, his dame, died when the tidings reached her. The public Groome Channelkirk Berwickshire Fala-Soutra and Humbie in Haddingtonshire. Its greatest length, from N to S, is 6½ miles; its greatest breadth Groome Crichton Midlothian Fala Dam hamlet (2¾ miles SE of Pathhead) also belong to Crichton, which is bonded NE by Cranston and by Humbie Groome Dalkeith Midlothian Fala and Soutra, Glencorse, Heriot, Inveresk, Lasswade, Newbattle, Newton, Ormiston, Penicuik, and Temple; the quoad sacra parishes of West Dalkeith Groome Edinburgh Midlothian Fala, Ford, Gorebridge, Howgate, Lasswade, Lerwick, Midcalder, Mossbank, Newlands, North Berwick, Ollaberry, Penicuik, Queensferry, Slateford, Tranent, West Calder, West Linton Groome Edinburghshire or Midlothian Midlothian Fala, Gilmerton, Gorebridge, Granton, Kirknewton, Lasswade, Loanhead, Midcalder, Newbattle, Newhaven, Ratho, Roslin, Slateford, and Stow. According to the Miscellaneous Statistics Groome Fala and Soutra Midlothian Fala Hall; ½ mile NW. (partly in Crichton par.) is the hamlet of Fala Dam ; 1½ mile SW. is Fala Bartholomew Fala and Soutra East Lothian
MidlothianFala and Soutra, a united parish of Edinburgh and Haddington shires, containing in its Fala or Midlothian portion the village Groome Fala Tileworks Perthshire Fala Tileworks , 2½ m. from Errol sta., Perthshire. Bartholomew Haddingtonshire or East Lothian East Lothian Fala. The smooth-flowing outline of the Lammermuirs is due to the occurrence of thick masses of shales of Low-er Silurian Groome Heriot Midlothian Fala, and detached sections of Borthwick and Stow, SE by the main body of Stow, SW by Innerleithen in Peeblesshire Groome Humbie East Lothian Fala in Edinburghshire; and it contains the post office of Upper Keith, 2 miles NE of Blackshiels. The detached section Groome Kelso Roxburghshire Fala Moor, the Earl of Huntly received detachments which augmented his force to 10,000 men, and so checked the invaders Groome Soutra East Lothian
MidlothianFala in Edinburghshire. The hospital and church of ` Soltre ' stood near the top of Soutra Hill (1209 feet), 5¾ miles Groome Soutra East Lothian Fala and Soutra par., Haddingtonshire; the ancient hospital and church of "Soltre" stood near the top of Soutra Bartholomew Stow Midlothian
SelkirkshireFala and Soutra, NE by Channelkirk, E by Channelkirk, Lauder, and Melrose, SE by Galashiels, S by Selkirk and Yarrow Groome Tyne East Lothian
MidlothianFala, in Soutra, and in the extreme S of Humbie, and, after courses of from 4 to 6½ miles Groome
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