Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for Annbank

Annbank, a mining village in the SW of Tarbolton parish, Ayrshire, with a station on the Ayr and Muirkirk line, 5 miles ENE of Ayr. It has a post office with money order and savings' bank departments under Tarbolton Station, a chapel of ease to Tarbolton erected in 1871, and a school which in 1879 had an average attendance of 342 day and 65 evening scholars, and received grants of £246, 15s. and £30, 7s. 6d. Pop. (1871) 1151, (1881) 1240.


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

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Feature Description: "a mining village"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Tarbolton ScoP       Ayrshire ScoCnty

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