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