Where is beith ayrshire

Beith parish is a largely rural area in the Garnock Valley in the north-east of the county bordering Renfrewshire. It includes the small town of Beith and the villages of Gateside and Barrmill. Beith is a small town at the north of the parish. The town's time of greatest prosperity was the midth century. During that time much of the town was engaged in cotton spinning, thread making and muslin weaving using cotton imported from America, Egypt and India.

The town also developed a brewery, a tobacco factory, distilleries and corn mills. The American Civil war and other factors reduced the cotton supplies and the town switched to several manufacturing industries including furniture-making, linen and leather.

In the early twentieth century, Beith was famous for its furniture. With many furniture factories within Beith, cabinet making was a popular trade up until the demise of the furniture making trade in the s.

The last furniture maker to close was the McIntosh factory formerly known as Balfours. Local attractions. Troon 26 mile. Glasgow 31 miles. Open farmland. Hot Tub.

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If you proceed to make a booking you will leave our Website and visit a website owned and operated by a third party. The origin of the name of Beith is generally accepted as coming from the Gaelic for "birch".

The first settlement in the area may have been a little to the east of today's town, where modern maps show "Hill of Beith", and it seems reasonable to assume that at one time this area was colonised by birch trees. Nothing significant now remains of he nearby Hill of Beith Castle. By the early s a market existed in Beith, trading in locally produced textiles. The importance of the route on which Beith stood was reflected in the establishment here of a post office in By Beith was home to a school, a number of water driven lint mills, and a thriving home-based cotton manufacturing industry.

There were also two businesses making candles, and three distilleries. The s saw the coming of the railway, in a manner of speaking. Unfortunately for Beith the nearest station was a mile to the north-west of the town, near the head of Kilbirnie Loch. It took until for Beith to gain a railway station within the town itself, when a branch line was built to connect it with another company's main line at Lugton, to the east.

By this time Beith had already begun to make a name for itself as a manufacturer of furniture. At the end of the s there were six furniture factories in or around the town, and a number of companies went on to succeed in worldwide markets.