The Kennel here is a stream which rises in Grange Wood to the SW of the farm, where there are several tributaries flowing northwards. Those in the eastern part of the wood converge to form a stream flowing NE towards Low Dog Kennel in an artificially straight channel. It turns NW at the farm and meets another "kennel" just before Main Bridge, then becomes Steads Burn. The other kennel rises in the western part of Grange Wood and forms the woodland boundary before turning north in another artificially straight channel. These kennels appear to have been created centuries earlier to manage the drainage when the land was enclosed from larger woodlands and converted to farmland. The addition of Dog to the name is probably a play on words.
