Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for Brown Carrick

Brown Carrick, a broad-based, ridgy hill in the N of Maybole parish, Ayrshire. Rising to an altitude of 940 feet above sea-level, it overlooks the Bay of Ayr and the valley of the Doon; and commands a magnificent prospect over Kyle and Cunningham and the Firth of Clyde.


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

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Feature Description: "a broad-based, ridgy hill"   (ADL Feature Type: "mountains")
Administrative units: Maybole Parish       Ayrshire County

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