Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for Crookedholm

Crookedholm, a village in Kilmarnock parish, Ayrshire, on the right bank of the Irvine, 1½ mile ESE of Kilmarnock town, and ¾ mile N of Hurlford Junction. At it are a public school and a worsted spinning-mill, in connection with carpet factories in Kilmarnock. Pop. (1861) 620, (1871) 770, (1881) 657.


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

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Feature Description: "a village"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Kilmarnock ScoP       Ayrshire ScoCnty
Place: Crookedholm

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