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	Loudoun - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Loudoun (Lughdan in Scottish Gaelic) is an area of East Ayrshire, Scotland, east of Kilmarnock.
		It is a parish and is named after the former village which stood north of Galston.
		Loudoun's most prominent geographical feature is Loudoun Hill, site of several minor battles during Scotland's history.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Loudoun (155 words)

	The Lordship & Barony of Kilmarnock - Kilmarnock
		KILMARNOCK is recorded as Kelmernoke in a document dated 1299, but the origin of the name remains uncertain.
		The town of Kilmarnock, nominated by the Reform Act of 1832, became a Parliamentary Burgh in 1833.
		When the Burgh of Kilmarnock became a Parliamentary Burgh under the 1832 Reform Act, the Burgh arms were based on the arms of Boyd, Earl of Kilmarnock, as used on the Burgh seal.
	freespace.virgin.net /kilmarnock.org.uk/kilmarnock.html (1206 words)

	Loudoun
		Loudoun was an area for registration only until 1905 and then in 1906 it was separated into the towns of Darvel and Newmilns.
		The town of NEWMILNS, the capital of the parish, is seven and a half miles east of Kilmarnock, and stands on the north bank of the Irvine, with a wing called Greenholm on the south bank, which is in the parish of Galston.
		The hamlet of LOUDOUN KIRK lies nearly a mile to the west of the Castle, and close by the wood-shaded ruin of Loudoun Kirk and auld Kirkyard, where may be seen the graves of
	fp.ayrshireroots.plus.com /Towns/Loudoun/Loudoun.htm (1363 words)

	The Lordship & Barony of Kilmarnock - Dean Castle
		Kilmarnock House in St.Marnock Street, Kilmarnock, became the residence of the Boyds after an accidental fire gutted Dean Castle in 1735.
		The house was later occupied by the Earl of Glencairn, and from Rambles Round Kilmarnock, "Kilmarnock House is now converted into an Industrial Ragged School, and in it many poor children who have lost their parents, and others who would otherwise become waifs of society, find a home".
		The Park was formerly part of the grounds of Kilmarnock House, and was given to the town in 1892 by Baroness Howard de Walden.
	freespace.virgin.net /kilmarnock.org.uk/dean.html (1035 words)

	Kilmarnock and Loudoun
		Kilmarnock itself is a centre of Industry with some heavy engineering.
		This Group is located in the village of Dunlop to the north west of Kilmarnock and supports a Cub Scout Pack and Scout Troop.
		Operating from St Joseph's Church in the town of Kilmarnock, the Group have Beaver Scouts, Cub Scouts and Scouts.
	www.mcintyre.demon.co.uk /ayreast.htm (493 words)

	Ramble Round Kilmarnock - Chapter XIV
		From Kilmarnock to Grouger--The Ruins of Tammie Raeburn’s Cottage--His self-imposed vow, personal appearance, courtship, witticisms, etc.--Grougar Row--Loudoun Kirk--The Queir--Lady Flora Hastings--Her melancholy death--The character of her Poems--Janet Little, the poetical correspondent of Robert Burns--George Palmer--An obscure Covenanter--A relic of Loudoun Kirk.
		This road--as the reader in all probability is aware--runs between Kilmarnock and Loudoun Kirk, and is one of the good old undulating sort that winds over heights and hollows in such a manner that the pedestrian meets with a good deal of ups and downs while traversing it.
		When leaving the secluded burying place, Mrs Semple, the occupant of the cottage already mentioned, showed me a relic of Loudoun Kirk in the shape of a moderately-sized bell, which, tradition states, was sent from Holland as a present to the parishioners by James second Earl of Loudoun, eldest son of the Lord Chancellor.
	www.electricscotland.com /history/kilmarnock/part2c14.htm (2706 words)

	Kilmarnock - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Kilmarnock, burgh, administrative centre of East Ayrshire unitary authority, central Scotland near Glasgow.
		Kilmarnock and Loudoun, United Kingdom parliamentary constituency in East Ayrshire, south-western Scotland.
		Kilmarnock FC, Scottish football club based in Kilmarnock, East Ayrshire, that started the 2005-2006 season playing in the Scottish Premier League....
	uk.encarta.msn.com /Kilmarnock.html (79 words)

	Kilmarnock & Loudoun (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		At present Danny is Convener of Kilmarnock North Branch and East Ayrshire Council Liaison Committee and Vice-Convener, Kilmarnock & Loudoun Constituency Association.
		He is a Member of Kilmarnock No 0 Burns Club and Honorary President of Kilmarnock Amateur Operatic Society; Patron of Kilmarnock Concert Brass and is a former Marathon runner.
		This new constituency consists of the whole of the old Kilmarnock and Loudoun seat with the addition of four wards from the old Carrick, Cumnock and Doon Valley seat.
	www.alba.org.uk /nextge/kilmarnock.html (734 words)

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		Kilmarnock, and from 1983 Kilmarnock and Loundon, has been a Labour seat since 1945, but recently the SNP has been gaining a head of steam and will push the current MP Willie McKelvey harder next time.
		Kilmarnock, located south west of Glasgow, is by far the largest town in this constituency.
		The smaller towns east of Kilmarnock, namely Glaston, Greenholm, Newmains and Darvel, grew up on textile manufacture, and the carpet, knitwear and shoe industries are still important today.
	www.bbc.co.uk /election97/constituencies/347.htm (132 words)

	Kilmarnock
		THE largest town in Ayrshire, stands in the two parishes of Kilmarnock and Riccarton, at the confluence of Kilmarnock Water and Irvine River, seven miles east from the sea, 15 miles north-north-east of Ayr, and 23 miles by rail from Glasgow.
		On leaving the University he was licensed to preach by the Burger Associate Synod, and placed minister of a congregation at Stockbridge, Berwickshire, where he published a volume of sermons, and remained until his death in 1818.
		, poet, born in Kilmarnock, 1802, was bred to carpet weaving in a factory.
	fp.ayrshireroots.plus.com /Towns/Kilmarnock/Kilmarnock.htm (2894 words)

	SNP.org - Official Web Site of the Scottish National Party (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Kilmarnock is the largest centre of population in this seat.
		William Wallace was born outside Kilmarnock and Sir Alexander Fleming was born in Darvel in 1881.
		Claimant count unemployment in Kilmarnock and Loudoun is above average at 6%.
	www.snp.org /html/election/candidates/detail.php?candidateID=19 (137 words)

	Des Browne - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		He is the Labour Member of Parliament for Kilmarnock and Loudoun.
		Des Browne was selected to contest the safe Labour seat of Kilmarnock and Loudoun following the retirement of the sitting MP William McKelvey.
		Browne won the seat comfortably at the 1997 General Election with a majority of 7,256.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Des_Browne (450 words)

	Kilmarnock & Loudoun (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Kilmarnock was a safe Labour seat and Willie Ross was never seriously threatened.
		Until the last election, this was a safe Labour seat and the real battle was for second place - obtained by the Conservatives in February 1974, 1979, 1983 (narrowly ahead of the SDP) and 1987 and by the SNP in October 1974 and in 1992.
		This appeared to be confirmed by Labour's deputy leader John Prescott including Kilmarnock & Loudoun in a tour of 'marginal constituencies' in the summer.
	www.alba.org.uk /scot99constit/c09.html (1129 words)

	Ayre - The Lordship and Barony of Kilmarnock
		Ayre - The Lordship and Barony of Kilmarnock
		Dean Castle (Kilmarnock Castle until 1700), was the ancestral home of the Boyd family for almost 400 years, and is featured with many recent photographs.
		The Baron of Kilmarnock, Eur Ing David Ayre BA BSc MSc DMS CEng MIEE, is a Chartered Electrical Engineer in the North Sea oil and gas industry, and has lived in the Orkney Islands of Scotland for over 25 years.
	www.electricscotland.com /WEBCLANS/atoc/ayre2.html (378 words)

	Scotsman.com News - Opinion - English need a shot of self-confidence
		KILMARNOCK and Loudoun is not exactly a magnet for immigrants.
		Kilmarnock and Loudoun is, of course, the constituency of Des Browne, the man in direct charge of Britain’s immigration policy after the resignation of Beverley Hughes.
		If Des Browne, the man from Kilmarnock, is to succeed, he might start by telling the English that people want to come here because it’s one of the best places in the world.
	news.scotsman.com /opinion.cfm?id=385442004 (1518 words)

	FT.com - Special Reports / UK Election 2001
		Kilmarnock and Loudoun is situated to the south west of Glasgow, sandwiched between the two marginal constituencies of Eastwood and Ayr.
		Kilmarnock is an industrial town famous for Johnnie Walker whisky as well as supporting light and heavy engineering industries.
		If the Conservatives remain unpopular in this seat and the Nationalists are able to build on their 1999 results (in which Labour's Scottish Parliament majority was reduced to 7% and the Euro majority a wafer-thin 48 votes), then the SNP may be in a position to take this seat from Labour.
	specials.ft.com /ukelection2001/FT3BXTMYJKC.html (254 words)

	International Civic Heraldry- Scotland - EAST AYRSHIRE
		The coat of arms features most of the elements from the Kilmarnock and Loudoun arms and the Cumnock and Doon Valley arms.
		The middle section has been lifted from the arms of the Boyds family of Kilmarnock but is bordered at the top and the bottom with a wavy blue line signifying East Ayrshire's two river valleys (Irvine Valley and Doon Valley).
		The bottom third of the shield is derived from the arms of the the Campbell family of Loudoun.
	www.ngw.nl /int/gbr/scot/eastayrs.htm (298 words)

	Church of the Holy Trinity, Kilmarnock, Glasgow (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		In 1856 plans for a church were drawn up by Mr James Wallace, a local builder and member of the congregation.
		The site chosen was that previously occupied by the terminus of the first railway in Scotland, which had been built by the Duke of Portland to transport coal from the Kilmarnock pits to the pier at Troon.
		The congregation is drawn not only from Kilmarnock itself, but from the many towns and villages of Kilmarnock and Loudoun and beyond.
	www.episcopalglasgow.org.uk /kilmarnock (181 words)

	Historical perspective for Galston (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		A fine stone three-arch bridge across the Irvine unites a Loudoun suburb to the town, which long was a mere hamlet or small village, maintained chiefly by the making of shoes for exportation through Kilmarnock.
		The parish, containing also the hamlet of Allanton, with parts of the villages of Newmilns and Darvel, is bounded N by Kilmarnock and Loudoun, E by Avondale in Lanarkshire, S by Sorn, Mauchline, and Riccarton (detached), SW by Craigie, and W by Riccarton.
		Sir William Wallace fought a victorious skirmish with the English at or near this camp; he had several places of retirement among the eastern uplands of Galston and Loudoun; and he has bequeathed to a hill in the former, and to a ravine in the latter, the names of respectively Wallace's Cairn and Wallace's Gill.
	www.geo.ed.ac.uk:81 /scotgaz/towns/townhistory469.html (1236 words)

	Home - Margaret Jamieson - Labour MSP for Kilmarnock and Loudoun (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The project, which is one of the most ambitious ever undertaken by the Force, aims to improve call handling and ensure the days of being held in a queue are a thing of the past.
		Kilmarnock and Loudoun MSP Margaret Jamieson has welcomed the latest Audit Scotland report highlighting the recent success in driving down waiting times, which shows the best performance ever recorded for inpatient and day case waiting times for Kilmarnock and Loudoun residents.
		In addition, NHS Ayrshire and Arran is expected to announce this week that it has met all of its targets on waiting appointments.
	www.margaretjamiesonmsp.co.uk (2816 words)

	Kilmarnock and Loudoun (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Located in the North East of the Area, this District again is mainly rural with farming the main occupation.
		Three Venture Scouts from Kilmarnock & Loudoun District are taking part in the Moray Area Explorer Belt Expedition, along with another 21 Venture Scouts from all over Scotland and a leader team of 7, to the Rhone Alpes.
		Leaders from Kilmarnock & Loudoun after receiving their Long Service Awards at the 1999 Area Presentation Evening.
	www.mcintyre.demon.co.uk /killie.htm (442 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Kilmarnock and Loudoun is a constituency in which the SNP have made considerable progress in recent years, with political commentators agreeing that a win here would represent a real in-road into Scotland's central belt.
		Alex was VC Publicity at the last General Election and is backed up in Kilmarnock by a dedicated team, who even operate their own constituency rooms--now hosting a telephone call centre as well.
		Alex's election agent is also a national fgure in the Party-- Adam Ingram, the VC Organisation who oversees a text- book campaign operation and has the benefit of eight SNP councillors representing wards in the constituency as well as one of the most successful totes in the country which provides much needed finance.
	atschool.eduweb.co.uk /hamish/si-oct6.html (4362 words)

	entree (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		I welcome Anya Bensberg and wish her well, because the all-party group is exceptionally important in raising issues of relevance to British Government policy in the Great Lakes region.
		Member for Kilmarnock and Loudoun is too much of a gentleman to question that reply.
		Friend the Member for Kilmarnock and Loudoun, we will be part of the 11 December donors conference.
	www.heritiers.org /mpdebate.html (10115 words)

	Scottish Homes Board Appointments (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		He has had considerable experience as a former Member of Parliament for Kilmarnock and Loudoun and I am sure that his commitment and expertise will be invaluable to Scottish Homes as it further develops its wide range of activities and initiatives in the coming years, particularly in partnership with local authorities."
		Mr William McKelvey served as the Member of Parliament (Labour) for the Kilmarnock and Loudoun constituency from 1979-97 and was Chairman of the Select Committee on Scottish Affairs from 1992-97.
		He also served as a councillor in Dundee District between 1974-78 and was a member of the housing committee.
	www.scotland.gov.uk /news/releas98/pr0673.htm (349 words)

	World Refugee
		Tony Blair was today struggling to prevent the political row over immigration spiralling out of control amid further damaging allegations that the system was being manipu...
		The last census put the ethnic community at 613 souls, a mere 0.8 per cent of the populati...
		Injudicious consumption of British television could persuade you that the average citizen h...
	archive.wn.com /2004/04/05/1400/refugee (981 words)

	Guardian Unlimited Politics \| Aristotle \| Kilmarnock and Loudoun
		It contains all of the old Kilmarnock and Loudoun constituency and also 17% of the former Carrick, Cumnock and Doon Valley seat.
		It is considered to be a notional hold for Labour.
		Places > Scotland > Central Scotland > Kilmarnock and Loudoun
	politics.guardian.co.uk /hoc/constituency/0,9338,-1054,00.html (53 words)

	Sunday Herald (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The developer, who bought theÊ13th-centuryÊRowallan Castle and its estate near Kilmarnock in East Ayrshire from Lord Rowallan in 1989, plans to transform it into a five-star hotel and golf course.
		Work is already underway to build a golf course designed by champion golfer Colin Montgomerie, and to turn another part of the property into a hotel.ÊHistoricÊScotland, however, stipulated on Friday that the castle must remain.
		One of his most vocal backers, Margaret Jamieson, Labour MSP for Kilmarnock and Loudoun, said: ÒThe whole thing is developing into a farce.
	www.sundayherald.com /print35076 (666 words)

	East Ayrshire Council: Corporate Resources Department
		Did you know that in Kilmarnock Halloween is traditionally celebrated on the last Friday of October, whether or not this is the 31st?
		This tradition is thought to originate in the town’s mining and industrial past, when workers would be paid on a Friday and could therefore afford to splash out on celebratory confections.
		We don’t know of anywhere else that this tradition continues, but it operates in Kilmarnock to this very day.
	www.east-ayrshire.gov.uk /corpres/halloween.asp (184 words)

	Clan Cunningham USA - New England/New York Region (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		It has not been an administrative unit since 1975, when, under regionalisation, it became part of the Region of Strathclyde and was divided into four districts: Cumnock and Doon Valley; Cunninghame; Kilmarnock and Loudoun; and Kyle and Carrick.
		- Kilmarnock with the villages of Riccarton and Kilmaurs Ayrshire Directory - 1837 - by Pigot and Co Kilmarnock is a large and important manufacturing town, in the...
		- The Lordship and Barony of Kilmarnock in Ayrshire, Scotland...
	webpages.charter.net /clancunninghamusane/ClanCunninghamLinks.html (2875 words)

	Policy report — 'Foundation hospitals — In favour' compared to Des Browne MP, Kilmarnock & Loudoun ...
		Policy report — 'Foundation hospitals — In favour' compared to Des Browne MP, Kilmarnock and Loudoun — The Public Whip
		Policy report — 'Foundation hospitals — In favour' compared to Des Browne MP, Kilmarnock and Loudoun
		Des Browne MP, Kilmarnock and Loudoun agrees 100.0% (explain...
	www.publicwhip.org.uk /mp.php?mpid=1996&dmp=363&display=motions (1144 words)

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