Boreland is a village in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland, which is located in Dryfesdale about 7 miles (11 kilometres) north of Lockerbie on the B723 road to Eskdalemuir. The village has a small primary school.[1]

Boreland is the smallest village to be twinned with Toronto, the capital of the province of Ontario.

There is another small village called Boreland in Perthshire,[2] one near Dysart in Fife[3] and numerous hamlets and farms throughout Scotland, largely in the Central Belt and the south, with a particular prevalence in Dumfries and Galloway. The term is from the Scots "bordland" meaning "table-land" or "land which directly supplies the laird’s table".[3]

References

  1. ↑ "Hutton Primary School". Dumfries and Galloway Council. Archived from the original on 26 October 2014. Retrieved 26 January 2012.
  2. ↑ "Iain Mac an Tailleir , "Scottish Placenames", p 21" (PDF). Scottish Parliament. Archived from the original (PDF) on 23 September 2011.
  3. 1 2 "Fife Place-name Data :: Boreland". fife-placenames.glasgow.ac.uk.
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