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Maybole

Maybole is a burgh of barony and also police burgh of South Ayrshire, Scotland. Pop. (2011) 4,760. It is situated 9 miles (14 kilometres) south of Ayr and 50 miles (80 kilometres) southwest of Glasgow by the Glasgow and South Western Railway. Maybole has Middle Ages origins, receiving a charter from Donnchadh, Earl of Carrick in 1193. In 1516 it was made a burgh of regality, although for generations it continued to be under the suzerainty of the Kennedys, after that Earls of Cassillis and (later) Marquesses of Ailsa, one of the most powerful family members in Ayrshire. The Marquess of Ailsa lived at Cassillis House, just outside Maybole until its sale in 2007. In the late seventeenth century, a census recorded Maybole was home to 28 "lords and landowners with estates in Carrick and beyond." In previous times, Maybole was the resources of the district of Carrick, Scotland, as well as for long its particular function was the household estates of the barons of Carrick. Maybole Castle, a former seat of the Earls of Cassillis, dates to 1560 and also still remains, although aspects of the castle are viewed as "of worry". The general public buildings consist of the town-hall, the Ashgrove as well as the Lumsden fresh-air biweekly houses, as well as the Maybole combination poorhouse. Maybole is a short distance from the native home of Robert Burns, the Scots national poet. Burns's mother was a Maybole local, Agnes Brown. In the nineteenth century, Maybole ended up being a centre of boot as well as shoe manufacturing. Margaret McMurray (?? -1760), one of the last indigenous audio speakers of a Lowland dialect of Scottish Gaelic, is recorded to have lived at Cultezron (not to be perplexed with close-by Culzean), a farm on the outskirts of Maybole.