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Ashgrove House stood derelict for many years and became ruinous prior to its demolition by a local farmer. The foresters cottage was located on an estate lane near to the south west of the house and was rebuilt as a bungalow in the 1930s only to be vandalised when unoccupied and it was subsequently
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Anne, or Lady Bowman as she was known locally, was succeeded by Andrew FitzJames
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Cuninghame family continuously held Ashinyards from circa 1570 until an eldest daughter, Elizabeth Cuninghame, married John Bowman Esq in 1695; who did however, as stated, purchase the estate. John Bowman was a Glasgow merchant, and chief magistrate in 1715. Their son, John
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Cunninghame of Ashinyards and Whitehurst is next recorded in 1664 and inherited from his father James in 1671. He married Margaret Wilkie and in 1706 their only surviving heir married Andrew Martin of Lochridge near Beith. A son, Arthur Martin, married Isabel Aitchison and moved to the West
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Ashinyards, including the wood, comprised between three and four hundred acres of good land. The extent of the woodland policies was a notable feature. One area of woodland is known as the 'Short Ride Plantation' and a former area was known as the 'Long Ride Plantation'. Quhytehirst or
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Ashgrove House was originally built as a suit of offices, however it was adapted as a large and comfortable dwelling. Ashenyards or Ashinyards is recorded as a farmstead lying to the East and overlooking Ashgrove Loch. Nothing now remains of this dwelling, however the ruins are evident on the 18th
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The 'Kings' Road' as it is traditionally known, ran from Kilwinning Abbey, through Byres, up through the lands of Ashgrove to take the 'Auld Clay Road' that branches off just before Lochwood and then runs down to near Muirlaught Farm. Armstrong's map of circa 1747 shows that the only direct inland
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Whitehirst, Nether Mains and Auchenkist were at one time part of the estate lands. A wooded belvedere known as the Ashgrove Mount survives to the north of the walled garden. A small wooded roundel was located beyond the Ashenyards farmstead at the intersection of hedgerows.
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The 1851 census records that Margaret Ann Bowman Margaret, aged 78 was the landed proprietrix, farming about 130 acres. Alexander Currie was an agricultural labourer at Ashgrove, together with a dairymaid Margaret Macallum and a housemaid, Janet Baillie
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A film of Ashgrove in the 1930s exists with a DeHavilland DH-60 Moth aeroplane G-EBUX on display. At the time the property was still owned by the Ballantine family and Monica Ballantine often landed her aircraft on the estate fields near to the house.
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in Ashgrove Loch, one, on the eastern side, is said to be unique as a crannog in that it was mainly of a stone rather than the usual timber construction with a causeway built of large sandstone blocks. It is possible that this 'crannog' was actually a
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in whose sacred grounds where they were laid to rest. Pilgrims would have followed the same route. This 'Avondale Roman Road' may have continued to a harbour at Little Brigurd Point near Hunterston.
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were hidden on a crannog in the loch by the monks when the abbey was sacked during the reformation. The proximity of the old 'Kings Road' to Portencross to the site is of interest in this regard.
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