Talk:Saltcoats

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Explain WHY it is not neutral? Douglasnicol 21:39, 24 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Origin of name

Sorry to disagree, but I believe that salt production came from saltpans and not salt salt mining.

That might be correct, I didn't put in the mining Douglasnicol 14:37, 2 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Boundaries

My recollection of the Saltcoats/Stevenston boundary is at variance with the author's, and that the boundary with Stevenston was a few hundred yards to the east of the railway bridge. Auchenharvie was within Saltcoats, as were the Campbell Lands between Auchenharvie and the sea.

Sorry, I'll have to disagree with your assertion. Auchenharvie is within Stevenston. If you want clarification, the address of the leisure centre is marked as Stevenston. Look at this web site (The Council one, you can't get much more official than that)Douglasnicol 14:41, 2 July 2006 (UTC)

http://www.naleisure.co.uk/index.php?f=3

Douglas, it is correct that the postal address of the leisure is given as Stevenston, but that was built after the burgh disappeared and the three towns merged. The west end of the old Auchenharvie estate was a public park with playing fields, within the Saltcoats boundary. To east were the grazing fields of the estate, which were in Stevenston. I would counsel caution about taking a modern postal address as being the definitive bounds of the old burgh. The maps available at http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/unit_page.jsp?u_id=10361965 tend to confirm that the boundary was to the east of the old Caledonian railway line, thus including the sports fields of Auchenharvie within Saltcoats.

As I recall the boundary was on the Stevenston side of the entrance gates to the now demolished Auchenharvie House. I believe that the House was within Saltcoats as were the farm buildings and the early 18th century dovecot. The fields to the east of the farm were with Stevenston as I recall. The boundary maps quoted above certainly back that up. The maps also show the Campbell Lands as being in Saltcoats.

See, one other thing I'm using is the Stenlake local history books. R McSherry wrote each book on the three towns and he has lived in that vicinty as far as I know all his life (If you look in those books he appears in some pictures when he was young). He has a picture of the old engine house that is the other side of the road from Auchenharvie, the one that's often mistaken as either an old keep or coal mine, and its in the Stevenston book. Now, R McSherry is involved, or at least was, to some extent with the North Ayrshire Museum in Saltcoats. Douglasnicol 14:50, 11 July 2006 (UTC)