Cumnock, market town with ry. sta., Auchinleck and Old Cumnock pars., E. Ayrshire, on r. Lugar, 17 m. E. of Ayr, 49½ S. of Glasgow, and 61½ SW. of Edinburgh, pop. 3345; P.O., T.O., called Old Cumnock, 3 Banks, 2 newspapers. Market-day, Thursday; has mfrs. of tweeds and other woollen stuffs, pottery, and dairy and agricultural implements, but the chief industry is mining. In the churchyard Alexander Peden, "Prophet Peden, " the Covenanter (1628-1686), lies buried.

(John Bartholomew, Gazetteer of the British Isles (1887))