Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for Bloody Burn

Bloody Burn, a brook in Tarbolton parish, Ayrshire, running to Fail Water, and supposed to have got its name from some unrecorded slaughter.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a brook"   (ADL Feature Type: "streams")
Administrative units: Tarbolton Parish       Ayrshire County

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