Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for Wellwood

Wellwood, an estate of 17,566 acres in Muirkirk parish, Ayrshire, on the river Ayr, 2¼ miles WSW of Muirkirk town. It was purchased in 1863 for £135, 000 by James Baird, Esq. of Knoydart and Cambusdoon (1803-76); and his nephew and successor, John Baird, Esq. (b. 1852), has built on it a good mansion.—Ord. Sur., sh. 15, 1864. See A. H. Millar's Castles and Mansions of Ayrshire (Edinb. 1885).


(F.H. Groome, Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland (1882-4); © 2004 Gazetteer for Scotland)

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Administrative units: Ayrshire ScoCnty

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