Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for Fergushill

Fergushill, a collier village in Kilwinning parish, Ayrshire, 1¾ mile E of Kilwinning town. Founded about the year 1835, it has a public school for the children of the colliers and a mission station of the Church of Scotland. Pop. (1861) 279, (1871) 531, (1881) 537.


(F.H. Groome, Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland (1882-4); © 2004 Gazetteer for Scotland)

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a collier village"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Kilwinning ScoP       Ayrshire ScoCnty

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