This is a list of placenames in
Scotland which have subsequently been given to parts of
Sri Lanka by Scottish
planters. Almost without exception Scottish place names in Sri Lanka occur either in the Hill Country plantations or in
Colombo.
As the Scottish coffee and tea planters, including Sri Lanka's first tea planter
James Taylor, settled in the country, they named their plantations after their home towns in
Scotland.
Charles Hay Cameron and his sons named their estates after
Lochiel and
Erroll their ancestral peerages, as well as
Moray,
Forres,
Glencairn and
St Regulus. In Colombo, places were named after Sri Lanka's British governors including
Thomas Maitland.