Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for Prestwick

Prestwick, vil. with ry. sta., Monkton and Prestwick par., Ayrshire, 2½ m. N. of Ayr, pop. 1064; P.O., T.O.; is an ancient burgh of barony, and has lands to the extent of 800 ac. Prestwick is a favourite watering-place, and is the headquarters of golfing in the west of Scotland.


(John Bartholomew, Gazetteer of the British Isles (1887))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "village with railway station"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Monkton and Prestwick ScoP       Prestwick Burgh       Ayrshire ScoCnty
Place: Prestwick

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