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Ordnance Survey - Ayr county, OS Name Books - Ayr county - Volume 58 - Parish of Stewarton, OS1/3/58

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Stewarton -- No. 21 -- XIII.9 T.2

" This stronghold (The Castle of Robertland) it is said, was destroyed by fire, in a feud between the Montgomeries of Eglington, and the Cuninghames in revenge for which, one of the Cuninghames shot the Chief of the Eglingtons, while riding home, near to Bridgend, at the east end of the town of Stewarton, where a path still there called the "Weeping Path", along which he rode until he came to the ford of the Annock, at Bridgend where he fell dead off his horse." New Statistical Acct. [Account] Page. 733

Ordnance Survey - Ayr county, OS Name Books - Ayr county - Volume 58 - Parish of Stewarton, OS1/3/58

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

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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