Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for Dalry

Dalry.-- town and par. with ry. sta., in co. and 17½ m. miles NW. of Ayr, 22½ SW. of Glasgow, 70 SW. of Edinburgh, and 393 NW. of London -- par., 19,284 ac., pop. 10,215; town, pop. 5010; P.O., T.O., 3 Banks; has woollen and worsted mills, an oil and stearine factory, &c., and is the seat of business for the great neighbouring ironworks of Blair and Glengarnock.


(John Bartholomew, Gazetteer of the British Isles (1887))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "town and parish with railway station"   (ADL Feature Type: "cities")
Administrative units: Dalry ScoP       Ayrshire ScoCnty
Place: Dalry

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