At a party a while back I was told a story as follows: – That this area used to be called Mossmynyne [the spelling is open to interpretation], and that it became Hawksland because the monks from Lesmahagow Priory used to hunt around here with their hawks. Well the information we have found so far bears out the first part; but we would suggest that the hunting was done by the nobility and gentry of the area, not by the monks!
