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Ordnance Survey - Ayr county, OS Name Books - Ayr county - Volume 63 - Parish of West Kilbride, OS1/3/63

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Plan VI.15 Parish of West Kilbride County of Ayr [Page] 33

Neil [underlined] is the usual spelling throughout Scotland, see Kincardine O Neil and Neilston etc,

Page 244, 245 New Stat Acct [Statistical Account]
"This majestic wall of Rock Rising where highest to perhaps little less than 300 feet perpendicularly Ranges in a straight line along the waters edge from which it is merely separated by a narrow strip of green land and extends about a mile in length. Along the bottom the precipice is richly fringed with natural Coppice in which the oak ash hazel and hawthorn are thickly interwoven.
"This portion dividing itself with three distinct and deeply separated Cliffs of equal height and uniform appearance has immemorially obtained the poetical cognomen of the Three Sisters"

Ordnance Survey - Ayr county, OS Name Books - Ayr county - Volume 63 - Parish of West Kilbride, OS1/3/63

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

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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