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Curate's Steps, a small pass at the side of the river Ayr, near Sorn Castle, in Sorn parish, Ayrshire. It got its name from a tradition that an obnoxious Episcopalian minister fled by it from his enraged flock, in the times of forced Episcopacy prior to 1688.
(F.H. Groome, Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland (1882-4); © 2004 Gazetteer for Scotland)
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| Feature Description: | "a small pass at the side of the river Ayr" (ADL Feature Type: "gaps") |
| Administrative units: | Sorn Parish Ayrshire County |
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