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Ayr: Auld Brig Auld Brig spanning the River Ayr at Ayr, South Ayrshire, Scot.

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Ayr, port town, South Ayrshire council area, historic county of Ayrshire, Scotland, at the mouth of the River Ayr where it enters the Firth of Clyde. The town is at the centre of the area associated with Scotland’s national poet, Robert Burns. Ayr was created a royal burgh in 1202 (the original charter is preserved in the Town Hall) and became the garrison and court town of the administrative entity known as the sheriffdom of Ayr. During medieval times it was the chief Scottish port on the western coast until it was superseded by the developing River Clyde ports to ...(100 of 334 words)

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