Descriptive gazetteer entries

These other entries in our collection of descriptive gazetteers are also about Ayr. You may be able to find further references to Ayr in the descriptive gazetteers by doing a full-text search here.

Place	Type of entry	Source
Ayr	the capital of Ayrshire, is a seaport, a seat of manufacture, and a royal and parliamentary burgh	Groome
Ayr	a river	Groome
Ayr	river	Bartholomew
Ayr	Parliamentary District of Burghs	Bartholomew
Ayr and Maybole Railway	a railway	Groome

This additional information from our descriptive gazetteers is for locations within the parish or parishes associated with Ayr.

Place	Type of entry	Source
Barns of Ayr	a temporary barrack or encampment	Groome
Belleisle	seat	Bartholomew
Doonholm	seat	Bartholomew
Doonholm	a mansion	Groome
Glengaw Burn	stream	Bartholomew
Mount-Charles	a mansion	Groome
Mount Oliphant	a farm	Groome
Rozelle	a fine mansion	Groome

Travel writing

This website includes the complete texts of books describing journeys around Britain, written between the twelfth and nineteenth centuries. Selecting one of the links below will take you to the first reference to Ayr within the selected text. This will not always be a description of a visit: travellers often mention places other than where they are, for example as a basis for comparison.

Traveller	Section	No. of Refs.
Daniel Defoe	Letter 12, Part 1: South-Western Scotland	5
Robert Gammage	Ayrshire and Renfrewshire	3
James Boswell	August 27th to 31st, 1773: Forres to Glen Moriston via Inverness	1
William Camden	Scotland: South of the Antonine Wall	1
George Head	The Foxdale Mines and the Calf of Man	1

This website includes two large libraries, of historical travel writing and of entries from nineteenth century gazetteers describing places. We have text from these sources available for these places near your location:

Place	Mentioned in Travel Writing	Mentioned in Hist. Gazetteer
Newton upon Ayr	0	2
Alloway	0	2
Prestwick	0	3
St Quivox	0	2
Monkton	0	3
Dalrymple	0	2
Fisherton	0	2
Coylton	0	2
Troon	0	2
Dunure	0	2
Stair	0	2
Symington	0	2
Tarbolton	1	2
Drongan	0	2
Maybole	0	2
Dundonald	0	2
Kirkmichael	0	2
Patna	0	2
Craigie	0	2
Crosshill	0	2