Tuesday, 28 July 2020

Braehead (2) of Knockroon, Auchinleck

Location

Cottages at Braehead circa 1930, Robert McMillan



Gone - This is all that’s left of Braehead. You can make out some of the dressed stone among the moss. It sits between Cumnock and Auchinleck, follow the path just above Knockroon down to join the walk along the Lugar. Kevan Aitken

Kevan Aitken



Horse Tax 1797-98  James Wallace, Braehead, 4 horses, 2 taxed

The Correspondence of James Boswell with James Bruce and Andrew Gibb,
Overseers of the Auchinleck Estate
Edited by Nellie Pottle Hankins and John Strawhorn
Edinburgh University Press and Yale University Press 1998*  p215
Braehead of Knockroon. a part of Knockroon acquired from John Boswell in 1790, was let to John Scott in 1784 and to James Wallace in 1798.

* The Correspondence of James Boswell with James Bruce and Andrew Gibb,
Overseers of the Auchinleck Estate
Edited by Nellie Pottle Hankins and John Strawhorn
Edinburgh University Press and Yale University Press 1998

The History of Auchinleck Village & Parish - Dane Love
Braehead of Knockroon
1899-1925     Dumfries House Estate - Matthew Martin (1849-1925)

Amalgamated into Knockroon, the part  that  has  now  become the Knockroon housing development.