A Guide to Pronunciation

Annan: stress on first syllable

Arthuret: Arthrut

Berwick: Berrick

Buccleuch: Bucloo (stress on second syllable)

Burgh by Sands: Bruff be Sands

Carlisle: on pronunciations and spellings, see note 4, here.

Fenwick: Fennick

Furness: as ‘furnace’

Gaelic (Scottish): gaa-lik

Hawick: Hoik

Haythwaite: Hethet

Hepburn: Hebburn

Hollows: Hollus

Kershope: Kirsop

Kielder: Keelder

knowe (hill): as ‘now’

Langholm: Lang’um (silent ‘g’)

Liddesdale: in three syllables

Lochmaben: Lochmayb’n (stress on second syllable)

Note o’ the Gate: ‘Note’ as ‘knot’

pele (tower): peel

Penton: stress on second syllable (as ‘Penrith’)

reiver: reever

Sanquhar: Sankhar (stress on first syllable)

Scrope: Scroop

Stanegarthside: Stingerside

Stanwix: Stannix

Whithaugh: Whitaff