Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for Glenmore Water

Glenmore Water, a stream of Auchinleck parish, E Ayrshire, rising at an altitude of 1600 feet near the meeting-point with Lanark and Dumfries shires, and running first 5¾ miles west-south-westward across the bleak uplands of the Gleumuirshaw or the eastern interior, then 43/8 miles west-north-westward along the Old Cumnock border, till, just above Lugar Iron-works, it unites with Gass Water to form the Lugar.—Ord. Sur.,, sh. 15, 14, 1864-63.


(F.H. Groome, Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland (1882-4); © 2004 Gazetteer for Scotland)

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Feature Description: "a stream"   (ADL Feature Type: "streams")
Administrative units: Auchinleck ScoP       Ayrshire ScoCnty       Dumfries Shire ScoCnty       Lanarkshire ScoCnty

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