- this term for a small stream flowing through boggy ground has a long history in Scots and dates back to the earliest stages of the language. Evidence for the word survives in Latin charters from the eleventh century. Place-names incorporating latch include Kirklatch near Pittenweem in Fife, Latchbrae in Edinburgh and Latch Burn in Perthshire.
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