ive been looking at this area last 10 months or so.the ironworks operated for 220 years or so.found viaducts that had been built and destroyed and rebuilt.muirkirk was the first town in britain to be lit by gas but the last to be connected to the national gas network.lots of large iron master houses knocked down or destroyed by fire and rebuilt.i just find the history of the place strange.
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https://www.ratedtrips.com/walking/on-old-roads-and-rails-around-muirkirk
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wellwood_House_footprint_ruins_looking_south,_Muirkirk,_East_Ayrshire.jpg
http://www.covenanter.org.uk/wellwood_house.html
http://www.ayrshirehistory.com/muirkirk_jimmys_gless_negs_7.html
https://canmore.org.uk/collection/645933
http://www.ayrshirehistory.com/muirkirk_iron_works.html
https://www.railscot.co.uk/locations/M/Muirkirk_Iron_Works/
https://canmore.org.uk/site/44728/muirkirk-ironworks
I’ve never heard of it but I found this interesting article on Canmore, maybe it’s a location I should do a stream from?
Today, few people driving through Muirkirk will cast an eye south across the River Ayr and perhaps fewer still will recognise the area’s rich industrial past. But far from being a landscape of neglect, of abandoned mines, quarries and spoil dumps, the story told by this landscape is one that celebrates the remarkable achievements of the miners, quarriers and entrepreneurs at the forefront of the Industrial Revolution. As I came to appreciate during the course of our survey many moons ago, this is a landscape worthy of recording and one I would certainly be sad to lose.