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Monkton is a small village in the parish of Monkton and Prestwick in South Ayrshire, Scotland. The town of Prestwick is around 1 + 1 ⁄ 2 miles (2.5 kilometres) south of the village, and it borders upon Glasgow Prestwick Airport .
The scheme for classifying buildings in Scotland is: Category A: "buildings of national or international importance, either architectural or historic; or fine, little-altered examples of some particular period, style or building type."
Map of places in South Ayrshire compiled from this list. This List of places in South Ayrshire is a list of links for any town, village, castle, golf course, historic house, lighthouse, nature reserve, reservoir, river and other place of interest in the South Ayrshire council area of Scotland.
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The estate remains partly in council hands (now South Ayrshire Council) although many of the houses are now privately owned. Most of the streets are named after flowers (for example, Celandine Bank, Honeysuckle Park and Speedwell Square) apart from Kincaidston Drive, the estate's main road.
Monkton Priory, on a hill across the river from the Pembroke Castle, was founded in 1098 by Arnulf de Montgomery. [2] Monkton Old Hall was originally a guest house for the Priory. [3] [4] In 1833, the parish was part of the Hundred of Castlemartin, with a population of 1,128, [1] and included Hundleton, Bentlass and other small settlements. [5]
The Monkton Windmill, [2] or Monkton Dovecote, [3] was originally an early 18th century vaulted tower windmill located on the outskirts of the village of Monkton on the site of an Iron Age hillfort in South Ayrshire, Scotland. It was later converted into a dovecote [4] and stood on the lands of the old Orangefield Estate.
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