Scottish Place Names Generator

After posting the other day about the Pseudo Elizabether Place Name Generator, I thought I'd put my rather limited Python skills to work and generate some Scottish place names.

A while back, I downloaded some data from the UK's goverment website. It contained a list of all place names within Britain. I filtered out the English and Welsh names, then I created a list of common prefixes and suffixes from the Scottish names. I let Python's Random function do its magic to combine these, and I created a spreadsheet from the results. 

There were a lot of unsuitable results, with names that felt unnatural or just awkward on the tongue. But even so, I was surprised and pleased at how many good names I got. Here's a sample...

• Auchgarth
• Banallan
• Barochy
• Bermish
• Bonington
• Bunardie
• Cairnroy
• Camdross
• Carbeattie
• Carnferry
• Dencarron
• Doonardie
• Dougrie
• Dowhelm
• Dundhu
• Edindenny
• Elgoss
• Falara
• Fargowrie
• Gowan
• Greenvig
• Haldyce
• Harnoch
• Hillmyre
• Incharrow
• Inverbreck
• Kentoll
• Lommor
• Lunferry
• Mainsford
• Mildart
• Monathie
• Mosslea
• Nethermyre
• Rossbeg
• Shawdyke
• Stronbeg
• Tarcastle
• Torrsea
• Westerannan

If you fancy some generated Scottish place names for your map or novel, you can grab the spreadsheet here (I've put in a CSV file for wider compatibility).