Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for Garpel Water

Garpel Water, a burn in Muirkirk parish, E Ayrshire. It rises, at an altitude of 1755 feet, close to the boundary with Lanarkshire, and runs 4¼ miles north-westward till it falls into the river Ayr at a point 1 mile WSW of Muirkirk town.—Ord. Sur., sh. 15, 1864.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a burn"   (ADL Feature Type: "streams")
Administrative units: Muirkirk ScoP       Ayrshire ScoCnty

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