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• If you are looking for hills, rivers, castles ... or pretty much anything other than the "places" where people live and lived, you need to look in our collection of Historical Gazetteers. This contains the complete text of three gazetteers published in the late 19th century — over 90,000 entries. Although there are no descriptive gazetteer entries for placenames exactly matching your search term (other than those already linked to "places"), the following entries mention "NEWTON UPON AYR":

  Place name	County	Entry	Source
  Ayr	Ayrshire	Ayr proper on the left bank of the river, and the continuous suburbs of Newton-upon-Ayr and Wallacetown on the right	Groome
  Clyde	Lanarkshire	Newton-upon-Ayr, Ayr, Maybole, Kirkoswald, and Girvan; on its right, Cardross, Roseneath, Dunoon-Kilmun, Bute, and Kintyre- Both shores	Groome
  Galloway, New	Ayrshire Dumfries Shire Kirkcudbrightshire	Newton-Stewart to Dumfries, 17½ miles NE by E of Newton-Stewart, 19 NNW of Kirkcudbright, 25 W of Dumfries, and 38 SE of Ayr. It stands, 200 feet above sea-level, at the foot of an irregular ridge of ground in the vicinity of Kenmure Castle; and it is surrounded by charming and picturesque scenery. Loch Ken, 1¾ mile SSE, and the neighbouring streams are good trouting waters. Although New Galloway is a place of municipal dignity, it can hardly be described as more than a village. It consists for the most part of a main street	Groome
  Glasgow	Lanarkshire Renfrewshire	Glasgow, the commercial and manufacturing capital of Scotland, and, in point of wealth, population, and importance, the second city of	Groome
  Govan	Lanarkshire	Govan, a parish and a burgh in the lower ward of Lanarkshire, and in the extreme NW of that county	Groome
  Kirkcudbright	Kirkcudbrightshire	Kirkcudbright, a town and a parish of S Kirkcudbrightshire. The capital of the county, and a royal and parliamentary burgh	Groome
  Lanarkshire	Lanarkshire	Lanarkshire, one of the south-western counties of Scotland, and the most important county of the country. It ranks only	Groome
  Monkton	Ayrshire	Newton-upon-Ayr, and W by the Firth of Clyde. Its utmost length, from N by E to S by W, is 4 1 / 8 miles	Groome
  Newton upon Ayr	Ayrshire	Newton upon Ayr , par. and suburb of town of Ayr, on right bank of river Ayr, 585 ac., pop. 6511; was made	Bartholomew
  Newton-upon-Ayr	Ayrshire	Newton-upon-Ayr, a suburban town and a small parish on the coast of Kyle, Ayrshire. The town, lying on the right	Groome
  Prestwick	Ayrshire	Ayr. Its age, and especially its constitution as a burgh of barony, are remarkable, and strongly resemble those of the curious neighbouring burgh of Newton-upon	Groome
  Prestwick, New	Ayrshire	Prestwick, New , vil., Monkton and Prestwick and Newton-upon-Ayr pars., Ayrshire, 1½ mile N. of Ayr, pop. 734.	Bartholomew
  Prestwick Toll or New Prestwick	Ayrshire	Newton-upon-Ayr parishes, Ayrshire, 1 mile S by W of Prestwick. Pop. (1871) 468, (1881) 734, of whom 337 were	Groome
  St Quivox	Ayrshire	Ayr. It is bounded N by Monkton, NE and E by Tarbolton, SE by Coylton, S by Ayr, and W by Newton-upon	Groome
  Wigtownshire	Wigtownshire	Newton-Stewart; the Ayr, Wigtown, and Kirkcudbright Artillery Volunteers in Ayrshire. The registration county gives part of Penninghaine to Kirkcudbrightshire; and in 1881 its population was 38, 448. The civil county is divided among nineteen quoad sacra parishes and part of another, viz., those already mentioned, with Bargrennan, Lochryan, and Sheuchan. Eleven of these are in the presbytery of Stranraer, the remainder in that of Wigtown, and all in the synod of Galloway. In 1883 there were 55 schools (49 of them public), with aggregate accommodation for 7554 children, 6262 on the registers, and an average attendance of 4537. History	Groome

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