Muirkirk
Introduction
The photograph on this page of Muirkirk by Richard Webb as part of the Geograph project.
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Muirkirk
Image: © Richard Webb Taken: 16 Aug 2005
Junction at the centre of this once busy industrial town, now a village up on the moors of Eastern Ayrshire. The ironworks are long gone, as are the coal mines, they dig big holes where villages once stood now. Muirkirk was the first town to have piped gas.
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Image Location
Latitude
55.521077
Longitude
-4.06701