Skelmorlie

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Skelmorlie
Buildings along the A78
Buildings along the A78
Coordinates 55 ° 52 ′  N , 4 ° 53 ′  W Coordinates: 55 ° 52 ′  N , 4 ° 53 ′  W
Skelmorlie (Scotland)
Skelmorlie
Skelmorlie
Residents 2095 2011 census
administration
Post town SKELMORLIA
ZIP code section PA17
prefix 01475
Part of the country Scotland
Council area North Ayrshire
British Parliament North Ayrshire and Arran
Scottish Parliament Cunninghame North

Skelmorlie is a village in the Scottish Council Area of North Ayrshire .

geography

Skelmorlie is the northernmost village in North Ayrshire. It borders directly to the north on Wemyss Bay in Inverclyde , from which it is only separated by the Kelly Burn boundary stream . The coastal town is about 32 km northwest of Irvine and 40 km west of Glasgow on the south bank of the Firth of Clyde . After a narrow, flat shoreline, the landscape rises rapidly, so that large parts of the village, especially the Upper Skelmorlie district, are on a slope.

history

South of Skelmorlie is Skelmorlie Castle , built around 1500 , which was in the hands of the Montgomery clan for a long time . The village developed with the construction of a spa hotel in 1868. The complex was expanded in 1875 to include a Turkish bath , a salt water bath and other baths. Both the spa hotel and the nearby villas were built in an elevated position on the slope, while workers' dwellings were built near the shore. In 1895 the neo-Gothic sandstone Skelmorlie Parish Church was built to a design by the architect John Honeyman . A lamp designed by Charles Rennie Mackintosh in front of the church is listed as a monument of the highest Scottish category A.

traffic

Skelmorlie is just off the A78 that connects Greenock to Prestwick . The village does not have its own train station. Directly north of the town limits, however, is the Wemyss Bay station , which was opened in 1865 as the terminus of the Greenock and Wemyss Bay Railway . Today Wemyss Bay is the terminus of the Inverclyde Line of First ScotRail , which connects the region to the city of Glasgow . A ferry dock is adjacent to the train station, which the ferry between Wemyss Bay and Rothesay on the island of Bute regularly serves. Glasgow International Airport is around 28 km to the east.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Entry in the Gazetteer for Scotland
  2. ↑ a b Skelmorlie. In: Francis H. Groome: Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland: A Survey of Scottish Topography, Statistical, Biographical and Historical. Volume 6: (Pet - Zet). Thomas C. Jack, Grange Publishing Works, Edinburgh et al. 1885, p. 352 .
  3. ↑ Listed Building - Entry . In: Historic Scotland .
  4. ↑ Listed Building - Entry . In: Historic Scotland .
  5. ↑ Entry on Wemyss Bay station  in Canmore, the database of Historic Environment Scotland (English)

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