Spring Road Trip Drive From Newburgh To Visit Brunton North Fife Scotland

Tour Scotland travel video of a Spring, road trip drive, with Scottish bagpipes and drums music, mostly on single track roads from Newburgh to visit Brunton in North Fife. Hidden within the folding hills of north Fife to the east of Norman's Law lies the old farmtoun village of Brunton. Surviving as a cottage weaving village in the 18th and 19th centuries, Brunton is now an attractive commuter settlement. The village once had a meal mill. The root of the name is believed to be the Scots burn, meaning stream, or brunt plus toun. Therefore, meaning Farm on a burn, or, alternatively, though less likely, farm on burned land, that is land cleared by burning for cultivation. Never more than a small hamlet, the New Statistical Account of 1838 noted the population as ninety one and the occupants as mainly weavers and other handicrafts tradesmen By 1882 there was listed a post office and a Free Church school and occupations included were a boot and shoemaker, grocer, joiner and wright, seedsman, carrier and a cart man. The surname Brunton first appears on record in England towards the end of the 13th Century. The first recorded spelling of the family name is shown to be that of Adam de Brunton, which was dated 1292, in Shropshire, England, during the reign of King Edward 1. Walter of Burntoun held part of Luffness, Scotland, in the reign of King Robert 111, and a John Brountoun was tenant of Aliebank, Selkirkshire in 1558. William Brunton, born 1771, died 1851, was an engineer and inventor, employed in Boulton and Watt's, Soho. George Brunton, born 1799, died 1836, was a Scottish lawyer and miscellaneous writer was born in Edinburgh.

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