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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.
Alloway (Scottish Gaelic: Allmhaigh, pronounced [ˈal̪ˠavaj]) is a suburb of Ayr, and former village, in South Ayrshire, Scotland, located on the River Doon.It is best known as the birthplace of Robert Burns and the setting for his poem "Tam o' Shanter".
One unusual feature of the village is a range of Almshouses that were constructed using funds from a bequest and had conditions of character, situation and age attached as recorded in 1846 :- "A range of almshouses was erected and endowed, by a bequest of the late Alexander Cooper, Esq., of Smithston, at Failford, near the junction of the Ayr and Fail rivers, for eight persons, who have each a ...
The ward was created following the Fourth Statutory Reviews of Electoral Arrangements ahead of the 2007 Scottish local elections.As a result of the Local Governance (Scotland) Act 2004, local elections in Scotland would use the single transferable vote electoral system from 2007 onwards so Ayr East was formed from an amalgamation of several previous first-past-the-post wards.
Mossblown was a coal mining community but the mines have been closed for some time now. [citation needed]Until the late 1940s - early 1950s, there was a working farm located near the centre of the village, called Whiskeyhall Farm.
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South Ayrshire's GVA represents 1.9% of the total Scottish Gross Value Added income which is consistent with the previous 20 years. By 2022, South Ayrshire Gross Domestic Product (GDP) estimates stood at £2.710 billion. [19] The largest employment industry in South Ayrshire and Scotland is the public administration, education and health sector.