Talk:Alves, Moray

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The claim that the village is named after the Railway station is not true. On old OS maps it is shown as "Crook of Alves" and on eg Roy's map "New Alves" is shown (this in 1747 many decades before railways came to the area). My reading of Roy's map is that he shows Crook of Alves as Easter Alves. So the name Alves clearly pre-existed the railway, but at this stage I cannot say what it means but it would appear to be cognate with Alvie in Strathspey.

The watercourse immediately to the south rises at Whitehill and passes by Whitefield Croft, so "Alvie" should probably be parsed as "Alb"-"ie" ie Whitburn - and Alves just a variant of this under Gaelic mangling of the original Pictish.Freuchie (talk) 10:39, 22 February 2023 (UTC)