Ayr, the county town of Ayrshire, at the mouth of a river of the same name, a clean, ancient town, its charter, granted by William the Lion, dating from 1200; well built, with elegant villas in the suburbs, a good harbour and docks for shipping; famous in early Scottish history, and doubly so among Scottish towns as the birthplace near it of Robert Burns.
Population (circa 1900) given as 23,000.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
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