Kilmarnock (/kɪlˈmɑːrnək/kil-MAR-nək; Scots: Kilmaurnock; Scottish Gaelic: Cill Mheàrnaig, IPA:[kʲʰiːʎˈvaːɾnəkʲ]) is a town and former burgh in East Ayrshire situated in southwest Scotland. The town has served as the administrative centre of East Ayrshire Council since 1996[5] and is the region's main commercial and industrial centre.[6]
The town grew considerably during the 1870s and the town's growth subsumed the village of Bonnyton,[7] and by the 1960s, new purpose built suburbs such as New Farm Loch were constructed to accommodate the increasing population of Kilmarnock.[8] By mid–2020, the population of the town was estimated to be 46,970,[9] making Kilmarnock the 14th most populated settlement in Scotland as well as the largest town in Ayrshire by population.[10]
The first passenger conveying railway in Scotland originated in Kilmarnock in 1812 as a horse-drawn 4 ft-gauge plateway and became known as the Kilmarnock and Troon Railway.[11] The first printed collection of works by Scottish poet Robert Burns was published in 1786 in Kilmarnock. Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect, was published by John Wilson, and became known as the Kilmarnock Edition. The internationally best–selling whisky Johnnie Walker was established in the town in the 19th century and was produced and bottled at the Hill Street plant until closure in 2012, following an announcement by owners Diageo in 2009 that the plant would close as part of company restructuring.[12][13][14][15]
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^"Kilmarnock town centre · East Ayrshire Council". East-ayrshire.gov.uk. 25 October 2019.
^"Kilmarnock town centre". www.east-ayrshire.gov.uk. East Ayrshire Council. Retrieved 12 January 2024.
^"KILMARNOCK – A HISTORICAL SURVEY" (PDF). www.kilmarnockhistory.co.uk. Kilmarnock History Group. Retrieved 13 January 2024.
^Beattie, Frank (2012). Kilmarnock Through Time. Amberley Publishing. p. 14. ISBN 9781848684102.
^"Mid-2020 Population Estimates for Settlements and Localities in Scotland". www.nrscotland.gov.uk. National Records of Scotland. Retrieved 19 January 2024.
^"Ayrshire – New Municipalism Scotland". Newmunicipalism.ballotbox.scot. Retrieved 25 June 2022.
^"Kilmarnock and Troon Railway". www.nationaltransporttrust.org.uk. National Transport Trust. Retrieved 13 January 2024.
^Kilmarnock's Johnnie Walker factory to shut. Kilmarnock Standard. Retrieved on 16 July 2013.
^"More than 20,000 take to streets to protest Johnnie Walker plant closure". The Daily Telegraph. London. 26 July 2009. Archived from the original on 12 January 2022.
^Khan, Stephen (2 July 2009). "Kilmarnock is Johnnie Walker". The Guardian. London.
^Keep Johnnie Walker in Kilmarnock. Scotland.gov.uk (15 July 2009). Retrieved on 2013-07-16.
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