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Part One Ayr Central Conservation Area Character Appraisal Street Pattern KEY Earliest development This product includes mapping data licensed from Ordnance Survey with the permission of the Controller of Her Majesty’s Stationery Office. Crown copyright and/or database right 2008. All rights reserved. Licence number 100020765. Sketch plan showing the how the layout of the town might have appeared in the early 13th century at the time of the foundation of the Royal Burgh. Based on current Ordnance Survey mapping and plans drawn by Willam Dodd in his 1969 study of Ayr’s development. The Sandgate forms the main street with long narrow land holdings, or ‘rigs’, set out at right-angles. William the Lion built his castle in about 1197 and founded the burgh in 1205. KEY Earliest development 2nd phase This product includes mapping data licensed from Ordnance Survey with the permission of the Controller of Her Majesty’s Stationery Office. Crown copyright and/or database right 2008. All rights reserved. Licence number 100020765. Sketch plan showing the how the layout of the town might have appeared in the mid 13th century. The burgh grew rapidly in the space between the Sandgate and the River Ayr, forming the distinctive shape of what is now the High Street. The ‘Seagate’, modernday Boat Vennel, led to the Common Quay. The Blackfriars established a church and community on the outskirts of the burgh in 1230. The River Ayr was forded in four places and a timber bridge stood in the location of the existing Auld Brig. 22
Ayr Central Conservation Area Character Appraisal Part One KEY Earliest development 2nd phase Later mediaeval Citadel. 1652 This product includes mapping data licensed from Ordnance Survey with the permission of the Controller of Her Majesty’s Stationery Office. Crown copyright and/or database right 2008. All rights reserved. Licence number 100020765. Sketch plan showing the approximate layout of the town in about 1660, based on current Ordnance Survey mapping, Tessin’s 1654 plan, and William Dodd’s 1969 plans. Apart from the Sandgate, High Street and Boat Vennel, today’s Academy Street, St John Street, Carrick Street, Mill Street, Kyle Street and Alloway Street were all developing. Reproduced by permission of the Trustees of the National Library of Scotland. Ordnance Survey Map of 1858 overlaid with the coloured extent of Ayr in about 1660, showing the development of the town in the 18th and early 19th centuries (in black and white). The loose grid of streets to the south of the Citadel was laid out in the early 19th century. Newmarket Street linked the Sandgate and High Street in 1767. The first New Bridge was built in 1786. Development of the Citadel lands was to follow in the 1860s. 23
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