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Ayrshire
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Illustrated Catalogue of |
Ayrshire Milestones |
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Mauchline 5, Ayr 16. Muirkirk 8½. Height 82cm. On S side of road.
Photos DMcC 1st September 2004. |
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Mauchline 6, [Ayr 17.] Muirkirk 7½. Height 61cm. On S side of road.
Photos DMcC 1st September 2004. |
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Mauchline 7, Ayr 18. Muirkirk 6½. Height 81cm. On S side of road. The incised letters have been filled with a white compound, now weathered to the colour of the stone.
Photos DMcC 1st September 2004. |
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Cairn Table (543m) from between Ayr 18 and Ayr 19 milestones on T12, on Limmerhaugh Muir.
Photo DMcC 1st September 2004. |
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Mauchline 8, Ayr 19. Muirkirk 5½. Height 82cm. On S side of road.
Photos DMcC 1st September 2004. |
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Mauchline 9, Ayr 20. Muirkirk 4½. Height 81cm. On S side of road.
Photos DMcC 1st September 2004. |
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Greenock bridge, erected in the 1790s, lies a little way E of the Ayr 20 milestone, at NS630271. It has been bypassed by the main road and the new bridge can be glimpsed beyond its arch. Rev. John Sheppard wrote in 1791/1792 that the Ayr to Edinburgh road (which was T12 through Sorn and Mauchline) was in a tolerable state 'excepting a few miles in the parish [of Muirkirk] itself.' Three bridges were in the course of building, over Greenock, Garpel*, and Ayr. 'These bridges have been long much wished for by the public, and it seems strange that they should not have been built sooner on a line of road so long and so much frequented.' [Old Statistical Account of Scotland, 1791-1799.] * This refers to the bridge over Whitehaugh Water at Garpel Farm.
Photo DMcC 1st September 2004. |
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The Lapraik monument at NS644268, lying below and S of the road in a bend of the River Ayr. Cairn Table is in the distance.
Inscription: 'This cairn was erected by the Lapraik Burns Club of Muirkirk to mark the spot where stood the house of David Lapraik, the friend of Robert Burns the poet. "But if the beast and branks despard Till kye be gaun without the herd an a' the vittle in the yard an' theekit right, I mean your ingle-side to guard ae Winter night."'
Photo DMcC 1st September 2004. |
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Mauchline 11, Ayr 22. Muirkirk 2½. Height 70cm. On S side of road.
Photos DMcC 1st September 2004. |
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