Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for Glasnock or Glaisnock

Glasnock or Glaisnock, an estate, with a handsome modern mansion, in Old Cumnock parish, Ayrshire, on the left bank of Glasnock Burn, 1¼ mile SSE of Cumnock town. Its owner, Robert Mitchell Campbell, Esq of Auchmannoch (b. 1841; suc. 1869), holds 3928 acres in the shire, valued at £2169 per annum. Glasnock Burn, issuing from a lake in New Cumnock parish, 2¼ miles WNW of New Cumnock village, runs 3 miles north-north-westward to Cumnock town, after intersecting which it falls into the Lugar.—Ord. Sur. , sh. 14, 1863.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "an estate, with a handsome modern mansion"   (ADL Feature Type: "land parcels")
Administrative units: Old Cumnock ScoP       Ayrshire ScoCnty
Place names: GLAISNOCK     |     GLASNOCK     |     GLASNOCK OR GLAISNOCK

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