Lisa Conrad wrote: > Has anyone come across a "South Brooke" on Burray? (Specifically > _"Brooke"_, and not "South Breck" or "South Brecks".) > There's no such place listed in Gregor Lamb's "The Place-Names of South Ronaldsay & Burray", which is pretty comprehensive. As I guess you know, there is a South Breck or Southbreck on Burray. There are two places called Brook or The Brook, one on Swona and the other at Wind Wick on South Ronaldsay, but both apply to coastal locations rather than dwellings, and apparently refer to sites where piles of rotten seaweed collect on the beach! (From ON bruk). Norman Tulloch