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Maybole

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Maybole

Village in South Ayrshire unitary authority, Scotland, 13 km/8 mi southwest of Ayr; population (2001) 4,550. Shoes and agricultural implements are manufactured here. Culzean Castle, built in the late 18th century and designed by Robert Adam, stands on a spectacular cliff-top site 6 km/4 mi to the west.

One of the area's main tourist attractions, Culzean Castle contains tropical gardens and a flat given to the US President Eisenhower. Maybole itself possesses an old castle, and the ruins of Crossraguel Abbey lie nearby.
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The simplicity of the imprudent man was suddenly abused; and so he passed his time with them certain days, which he did in Maybole with Thomas Kennedie, uncle to the said Earl: after which the said Mr Allan passed, with quiet company, to visit the place and bounds of Crossraguel, [his abbacy,] of which the said Earl being surely advertised, determined to put in practice the tyranny which long before he had conceaved.
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