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.
Hill Country
Abbey Craig Aberdeen FallsSenanayake 2004: 1 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 - named after Elgin, a major town of Moray in Scotland. 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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