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KILWINNING , a municipal and See also:police See also:burgh of See also:Ayrshire, See also:Scotland, on the right See also:bank of the Garnock, 24 in. S.W. of See also:Glasgow by the Caledonian railway, and 264 in. by the Glasgow & See also:South-Western railway. Pop. (Igor), 4440• The See also:chief buildings include the public library, the Masonic See also:- HALL
- HALL (generally known as SCHWABISCH-HALL, tc distinguish it from the small town of Hall in Tirol and Bad-Hall, a health resort in Upper Austria)
- HALL (O.E. heall, a common Teutonic word, cf. Ger. Halle)
- HALL, BASIL (1788-1844)
- HALL, CARL CHRISTIAN (1812–1888)
- HALL, CHARLES FRANCIS (1821-1871)
- HALL, CHRISTOPHER NEWMAN (1816—19oz)
- HALL, EDWARD (c. 1498-1547)
- HALL, FITZEDWARD (1825-1901)
- HALL, ISAAC HOLLISTER (1837-1896)
- HALL, JAMES (1793–1868)
- HALL, JAMES (1811–1898)
- HALL, JOSEPH (1574-1656)
- HALL, MARSHALL (1790-1857)
- HALL, ROBERT (1764-1831)
- HALL, SAMUEL CARTER (5800-5889)
- HALL, SIR JAMES (1761-1832)
- HALL, WILLIAM EDWARD (1835-1894)
hall and the See also:district See also:hospital. The centre of See also:interest, however, is the ruined See also:abbey, originally one of the richest in Scotland. Founded about 1140 by See also:Hugh de Morville, See also:lord of Cunninghame, for Tyronensian monks of the See also:Benedictine See also:- ORDER
- ORDER (through Fr. ordre, for earlier ordene, from Lat. ordo, ordinis, rank, service, arrangement; the ultimate source is generally taken to be the root seen in Lat. oriri, rise, arise, begin; cf. " origin ")
- ORDER, HOLY
order, it was dedicated to St Winnin, who lived on the spot in the 8th See also:century and has given his name to the See also:town. This beautiful specimen of See also:Early See also:English See also:architecture was partly destroyed in 1561, and its lands were granted to the See also:earl of See also:Eglinton and others. Kilwinning is the traditional birthplace of Scottish See also:freemasonry, the See also:lodge, believed to have been founded by the See also:foreign architects and masons who came to build the abbey, being regarded as the See also:mother lodge in Scotland. The royal See also:company of archers of Kilwinning—dating, it is said, as far back as 1488—meet every See also:July to shoot at the See also:popinjay. The See also:industry in See also:weaving shawls and lighter fabrics has died out; and the large See also:iron, See also:coal and See also:fire-See also:clay See also:works at Eglinton, and worsted See also:spinning, employ most of the inhabitants. About a mile from Kilwinning is Eglinton See also:Castle, the seat of the earls of Eglinton, built in 1798 in the English castellated See also:style.
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