Old travel Blog photograph of Aytounhill House by Newburgh, Fife, Scotland. For some time the industries in Newburgh chiefly consisted of the making of linen and floorcloth, malting and quarrying, and there were fisheries, especially of salmon. The harbour was used for the transshipment of the cargoes of Perth-bound vessels of over 200 tons. But most of these industries have now gone. A linoleum factory, owned by Courtaulds, which had been the town's principal employer, closed in May 1980 after a large fire destroyed much of the building.
Recorded in the spellings of Ayton and Hayton, this is a Northern English habitational surname name from any of various places called Ayton and Hayton in the counties of Cumberland, Yorkshire, Nottinghamshire, and elsewhere in England. The first recording as a placename was that of Great Ayton in the year 881 in the chronicles of Yorkshire and in 1066 as the spelling of Etan, and then to Aton in 1279
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