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| | Girvan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31) |
 | | The town of Girvan stands on the left side of Girvan Water, where it enters the sea, 22 miles south-south-west of Ayr; had some existence so early as the eleventh century, and has increased and decreased much with the industry of handloom weaving. |
 | | It largely consists of one-story houses, with gardens, and stretches to a great length along a plain on the shore; is a seaport and fishing station, a seat of sheriff-courts, and a burgh of barony, created so by Charles II. |
 | | The surface of the parish is chiefly hill pasture, with some fine arable land along the shore, and where it is traversed by the Girvan in the north and by Assel Water, an affluent of the Stinchar, in the east. |
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