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NEWMILNS

This article appears in Volume V19, Page 526 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: NAN-NEW
NEWMILNS , a manufacturing town and police
burgh
  of Ayrshire,
Scotland
 . Pop. (19o1) 4467. It is situated 71 M. E. of
Kilmarnock
  by the Glasgow and
South
 -Western railway. It was made a
burgh
  of barony in 1490 by James IV., the charter being confirmed in 1566 by Sir
Matthew
  Campbell, the laird of Loudoun, in which parish the town is situated. Muslin- and lace-curtain making and the manufacture of mosquito-nets are the
chief
 
industries
 . Nearly 2 m. E. lies Darvel (pep. 3070), a police burgh and manufacturing town, with a station on the Glasgow and
South
 -Western railway; its
chief
  manufactures are those of lace curtains, muslins and carpets. Two miles E. rises Loudoun Hill (1036 ft.) where Robert Bruce defeated the English in 1307, and about a mile farther E. is the
cairn
  raised to commemorate one of Wallace's victories.


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