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Ordnance Survey - Ayr county, OS Name Books - Ayr county - Volume 2 - Parish of Ardrossan, OS1/3/2

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states that the name
Cumbra comes from the
Cimbric or Welshmen
who first peopled the
Islands some six hundred
years before Christ, and
that the name of the
Island is composed
of their own designation
and the letter a, which
in their language viz
infers Islands. Hence he
maintains that Cumbra

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Ordnance Survey - Ayr county, OS Name Books - Ayr county - Volume 2 - Parish of Ardrossan, OS1/3/2

This volume contains information on place names found in the parish of Ardrossan.

Ordnance Survey - Ayr county

Ordnance Survey was established in the 18th century to create maps, surveys and associated records for the entirety of Great Britain. These records are arranged by county. This entry has been created to enable searching for Ordnance Survey records for the county of Ayr, which is in the south west of Scotland. The boundaries of the county were altered by the Boundary Commissioners in 1891.

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