Barkip,[1] also known as The Den, is a hamlet in North Ayrshire, Scotland about three miles (five kilometres) southwest of Beith on the A737 road to Dalry. The earliest recorded name is 'Blairkip'.[2] In the Gaelic language, the name Barkip comes from bar ("top"), and kip ("a rank of soldiers").[3] It is not clear when or why the name 'The Den' started to be used although it appears in the local press as both in 1898,[4] however in Scots as in old English[5] one meaning is 'A hollow between hills,' which is certainly an accurate description of the geography of the area that Barkip lies in.[6] Following construction of a new road, Barkip no longer sits on the main Beith to Dalry road.
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^Roy's Map Retrieved : 18 February 2012
^Mackay, John; Maclean, Annie; Mackay, Sharp (1892). The Celtic monthly: a magazine for Highlanders (Public domain ed.). Archibald Sinclair, Celtic Press. pp. 22–. Retrieved 19 February 2012.
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Barkip, also known as The Den, is a hamlet in North Ayrshire, Scotland about three miles (five kilometres) southwest of Beith on the A737 road to Dalry...
station approximately one mile south-west of the town of Beith, close to Barkip, North Ayrshire, Scotland, part of the Lanarkshire and Ayrshire Railway...
of sawing off chunks to swallow. Fossils of Cladodus have been found in Barkip, Scotland, Bundock and Laurel Formations, Australia and in the Pitkin Formation...
gunpowder magazine was located near the site of the Low Well in the village of Barkip, also known as The Den, near Beith, North Ayrshire. An explosives magazine...
Scotland. At the age of 25, Mackie was superintending engineer for the Barkip Coal & Ironstone Works in Scotland. He resigned from this position and in...
firstly in November 1765 to Elizabeth Park daughter of William Park of Barkip. They had several children, most of whom died young: Richard McQuhae (1766–1805)...
(OS) maps for 1858 show that the 'Hillhead Railway' ran to the quarry from Barkip Junction on the Ayrshire and Lanarkshire Railway branchline to Kilbirnie...
Swindridgemuir purchased the mid-superiority. The Church of Scotland school at Barkip, also known as The Den, had an average attendance of 137 pupils in 1891;...
towards Roughwood Bridge and Burnside Looking towards DM Beith and the Barkip Road The older section of the Roughwood Farm buildings Roughwood Farm buildings...
renamed Glengarnock High 2 June 1924; Brackenhills; opened 1 September 1906; Barkip Junction; connections to mineral lines; Kilbirnie Junction; see above. The...
away to be consumed elsewhere as recorded in this poem about 'The Den' at Barkip - The narrow 'layby' on the roadside with a well and small building suggests...
line near Tandlehill Farm The course of the old 'Hillhead Railway' from Barkip Junction to Broadstone limestone quarry The Giffin House main entrance,...
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