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NEWTON UPON AYR See Column of Remarks Statistical Account of Ayrshire
William Bone Treasurer of Newton
John Moore JP [Justice of the Peace]
Robert Gray Burgess
027 ; 033 [Situation] On the North side of the River Ayr where it joins the Sea
"The name of the Parish is evidently derived from its situation on the Banks of the Ayr and the town's being founded at a later period than the adjacent County town. In the Charter Granted to the Burgh it is Called Nova Villa Super Air, and sometimes Nova Villa de Air The same name was given originally to the town of Ayr but when another Town arose on the north side of the River, the name became appropriated to it, as being the more modern.
The Parish is of very small extent being only a mile and a half in length and a mile in its greatest breath, it is bounded on the North by the Parish of Prestwick on the East by the parish of St Quivox-and -Wallacetown on the South by the River Ayr separating it from the town and Parish of Ayr and on the West by the Frith of Clyde."
Stat: Acc: [Statistical Account] of Ayrshire
There is a mistake in the description of the Parish in the Stat: Acc: [Statistical Account] above quoted, it is bounded on the South by the Parish of Ayr and not by the River Ayr as stated in the Extract.
FIRTH OF CLYDE Nil Statistical Account of Ayrshire
William Bone
John Moore JP [Justice of the Peace]
Robert Gray
An Arm of the Sea forming the Estuary of the River Clyde -

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