Old Photograph Main Street Dalrymple Scotland

Old photograph of cottages, horse and cart and children on Main Street in Dalrymple, Ayrshire, Scotland. The name Dalrymple comes from Gaelic meaning " flat field of the crooked pool or river ". The village is relatively modern, although the parish and church of Dalrymple are older. When the community was first established around 1800, there were two streets, Main Street and Garden Street. The village grew slowly until the late 20th century, when council housing was built to house families from coal mining villages in the area that were suffering an economic decline. Dalrymple is in the Doon Valley, on the north bank of the River Doon. At one time the Minister ran a school out of the church, and Robert Burns the Bard of Scotland, was a pupil.



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