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| | Name origins of Harlan |
 | | London, 1903, we find: "Harland: A location name, Caithness." Mr Iain Sutherland of the Wick Centre, and Mr Bruce de Wert of D W Georgeson and Son, Wick were kind enough to confirm that indeed, there is near the town of Wick, in North-eastern Scotland, a mound about a kilometer across, called 'The Harland'. |
 | | Incidentally, Ekwall explains East and West Harling, in Norfolk, in a similar fashion. |
 | | I haven't been able to confirm the existence of a Dutch or Low German word, which would fit in with this, but in Scotland, a similar term...'Hauch', 'Haugh' or simply Ha' have the meaning 'low lying marshy land beside a stream'. |
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