Mauchline is a town in the division of Kyle, Ayrshire, Scotland. As of 2000, the town has a population of 4,176. It lies 8 miles east southeast of Kilmarnock and 11 miles northeast of Ayr by the Glasgow and South-Western railway. It is situated on a gentle slope about 1 mile from the River Ayr, which flows through the south of the parish of Mauchline. It is noted for its manufacture of snuff-boxes and knickknacks in wood, and of curling-stones. There is also some cabinet-making, besides spinning and weaving, and its horse fairs and cattle markets have more than local celebrity. The parish church, dating from 1829, stands in the middle of the village, and on the green a monument, erected in 1830, marks the spot where five Covenanters were killed in 1685. Robert Burns lived with his brother Gilbert on the farm of Mossgiel, about a mile to the north, from 1784 to 1788. Mauchline kirkyard was the scene of the Holy Fair; at Poosie Nansies (Agnes Gibsons) still, though much altered, a popular in the Jolly Beggars held their highjinks; near the church, in the poet's day an old, barn-like structure, was the Whiteford Arms inn, where on a pane of glass, Burns wrote the epitaph on John Dove, the landlord; auld Nanse Tinnocks house, with the date of 1744 above the door, nearly faces the entrance to the churchyard; the Rev. William Auld was minister of Mauchline, and Holy Willie, whom the poet scourged in the celebrated Prayer, was one of Daddy Aulds elders; behind the kirkyard stands the house of Gavin Hamilton, the lawyer and firm friend of Burns, in which the poet was married. The braes of Ballochmyle, where he met the heroine of his song, The Lass o Ballochmyle, lie about a mile to the southeast. Adjoining them is the considerable manufacturing town of Catrine, with cotton factories, bleach fields and brewery, where Dr. Matthew Stewart (1717-1785), the father of Dugald Stewart had a mansion, and where there is a big waterwheel said to be inferior in size only to that of Laxey in the Isle of Man. Barskimming House, 2 miles south by west of Mauchline, the seat of Lord-President Miller (1717-1789), was burned down in 1882. Near the confluence of the Fail and the Ayr was the scene of Burns' parting with Highland Mary. Main street in Bastrop, Texas, a small town In American English, a town is usually a municipal corporation that is smaller than a city but larger than a village. ... The District of Kyle (or Coila, poetically) today forms part of East Ayrshire, Scotland. ... Ayrshire (Scottish Gaelic, Siorrachd Inbhir Àir) is a traditional county in south-west Scotland, located on the shores of the Firth of Clyde. ... 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• This article incorporates text from the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica, a publication in the public domain.