Stair

The hamlet of Stair in Scotland nestles at the bottom of a glen beside the River Ayr at the north-west border of the 5,376 acre (22 km²) parish of Stair where the River Ayr is joined by Trabboch Burn in what is now known as East Ayrshire.

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In the year 1450 William de Dalrymple acquired the lands of Stair-Montgomery and built Stair House. Once part of the District of Kyle, a historic sub-region of Ayrshire, the parish of Stair was created in 1653 at the request of James Dalrymple, 1st Viscount Stair who arranged for the severence of a part of Ochiltree to form a new parish.

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Other places of interest in the parish of Stair are Stair brig built in 1745 and Stair Church first built in 1706 and replaced with the existing structure in 1864.

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External link: Stair Church http://www.stairchurch.homestead.com/

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Scotland: :For other uses, see Scotland (disambiguation). See also British Isles (terminology)....

River Ayr: The River Ayr in what was the old Ayrshire County of Scotland is approximately 65 kilometers in length. It originates at the Loch at Glenbuck in East Ayrshire on the border of Lanarkshire and winds its way through East and South Ayrshire to the town of Ayr where it empties into the Firth of Clyde o...

East Ayrshire: East Ayrshire (Siorrachd Inbhir ?ir an Ear in Gaelic) is one of 32 unitary council regions in Scotland. It borders onto North Ayrshire, Renfrewshire, South Lanarkshire, South Ayrshire and Dumfries and Galloway. With South Ayrshire and the mainland areas of North Ayrshire, it forms the traditional co...

Stair related Images and Photos (experimental)

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Stair Case Buckingham House 'The History of Royal Residences' engraved by William James Bennett