Hurlford

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Hurlford, a town in Riccarton parish, Ayrshire, on the left bank of the river Irvine, with a station on the Glasgow and south-western railway, at the junction of the Newmilns branch, 2 miles ESE of Kilmarnock, under which it has a post office, with money order, savings' bank, and telegraph departments. Connected by a bridge with the suburb of Crookedholm in Kilmarnock parish, it is the seat of extensive ironworks of the Eglinton Iron Co. (1846), as also of a worsted spinning-mill and of large fire-clay works, whilst in the neighbourhood are many collieries. A quoad sacra parish church, erected in 1875 at a cost of £8000, is an Early English edifice, with 800 sittings, a fine organ, and a tower containing the largest bell in the county. There are also a Free church, a Roman Catholic chapel-school (1883), an Institute, with public hall and reading-room, erected by private liberality, and two public schools-Hurlford and Crookedholm. The quoad sacra parish, constituted in 1874 with an endowment of £3000, is in the presbytery of Irvine and synod of Glasgow and Ayr. Pop. of town (1861) 2598, (1871) 3488, (1881) 4385, of whom 657 were in Crookedholm; of q. s. parish (1881) 4699, of whom 193 were in Galston parish.—Ord. Sur., sh. 22, 1865.

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