What, Watt, Wat ???

It is a little known fact that the 13th Century Scottish Laird and adventurer, Sir Iain Chickockaye, travelled widely in Asia, rowing many of the rivers including the Tonle Sap in Cambodia. Whilst there he converted to Buddhism and on his return to the Highlands of Scotland he built a 3 tower Wat in the style of Angkor Wat. Thereafter his descendants were known as the people of the Watte, and later as Watts and Watt. Unfortunately the Scottish Angkor Wat did not survive, being first badly damaged by roving Scottish Hindu warriors in the 14th century and then flattened by Calvinists in the 15th. The Calvinists were of the view that in matters of religion everything should be "a level playing field" (a term widely in use in 15th century Scotland and now enjoying something of  a revival). The Calvinists  declared that the Wat should become a  Blair ( the Scottish word for a plain or field).

Funny how history repeats.