Carcant is a small settlement and a wind farm, near Heriot in the Scottish Borders area of Scotland.
A famous inhabitant of Carcant was Eric Liddell.
Etymology
Carcant is etymologically a Cumbric place-name. The first element is cognate with Welsh caer 'fortification'. The second might be can 'white', in which case the name means 'white fort'; but more likely it is cant 'edge of a circle', in this context probably meaning 'district, region, edge, border', thus giving 'fort of the region/border'.Bethany Fox, 'The P-Celtic Place-Names of North-East England and South-East Scotland', The Heroic Age, 10 (2007), http://www.heroicage.org/issues/10/fox.html (appendix at http://www.heroicage.org/issues/10/fox-appendix.html).
See also Clan Borthwick List of places in the Scottish Borders
References
External links
Renewables Map: Carcant, Heriot, Scottish Borders Scottish Natural Heritage: Windfarms in Scotland (March 2010 RCAHMS record of Carcant RCAHMS record of Carcant Windfarm British Listed Buildings: Carcant Bridge over Carcant Burn Eric Liddell Image Gallery