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Bloak was a hamlet or clachan in East Ayrshire, Parish of Stewarton, Scotland. The habitation was situated between Auchentiber and Stewarton on the B778...15 KB (1,768 words) - 16:54, 22 August 2021- Glasgow with a junction for Kilwinning and a nearby country road leading to Bloak, Aiket Castle, Bonshaw, the Kilbrides and ultimately to Stewarton. The main...31 KB (3,893 words) - 20:48, 22 August 2024
Paterson states that there is a mineral spring near Stewarton, called the Bloak Well. It was discovered through the observation that pigeons from Lainshaw...30 KB (4,120 words) - 04:24, 9 December 2023
recorded as growing on the motte. It is known from the pollen record at Bloak Moss that extensive clearances took place here in the fifth or sixth centuries...13 KB (1,497 words) - 01:44, 7 December 2022- Glendaruel in Argyll Clachaneasy in Galloway Hessilhead in North Ayrshire Bloak in East Ayrshire Ladeside in East Ayrshire Damnaglaur in the Rinns of Galloway...5 KB (500 words) - 04:20, 23 July 2024
- Brandon included it in his book Poverty, Mendacity and Crime but spelled it bloak and defined it as "a gentleman". An accused poacher from Cobham, Surrey...28 KB (3,155 words) - 23:26, 14 August 2024
Lainshaw, Kirkwood and Bridgehouse Estate. Kirkwood was anciently known as Bloak Cunninghame. Kirkwood remains as a farm in 2010. Kirkwood was the possession...16 KB (2,221 words) - 03:03, 21 December 2023
Fleet, Gatehouse of Fleet New Abbey Mill, New Abbey Aiket Mill, Dunlop Bloak Mill, Dunlop Busbie Mill, Knockentiber Dalmore Mill, Stair Dalmusternock...38 KB (2,755 words) - 21:31, 24 July 2024
North Ayrshire, called the Bloak Well. Robinson gives the Scot's word 'blout' as meaning the 'eruption of fluid'. Bloak Well was first discovered in...58 KB (8,046 words) - 06:57, 30 May 2024
collected together from neighbouring parishes at Darnshaw, a remote house near Bloak Moss on the old Auchenharvie to Megswell toll road route. The old toll road...6 KB (669 words) - 02:45, 23 August 2021
the site and the mill race is in good condition and substantially built. Bloak Holm mill was located nearby, a little further down the Glazert Water and...13 KB (1,786 words) - 22:20, 12 June 2024
married William Scott of Cambeith. Annabella married William Dunlop of Bloak. Robert Ker married Barbara Montgomerie, daughter of Robert Montgomerie...19 KB (2,332 words) - 02:40, 26 January 2024- this context. Blout and Bloak are very similar words, with a Bloak Moss not very far away at Auchentiber. A well recorded as Bloak Well was first discovered...84 KB (12,559 words) - 01:45, 7 December 2022
Castle is a prominent feature of this flat landscape in the Torranyard area. Bloak Moss has been scientifically investigated to ascertain its vegetational...25 KB (2,996 words) - 19:24, 20 December 2023
practical considerations into account. A similar 'ferm toun' existed at Bloak, near Auchentiber, until the 1890s. Duskwater Cottage was the blacksmith's...7 KB (838 words) - 09:55, 14 August 2024
considerations into account. Another similar 'ferm toun' also existed at Bloak, near Auchentiber, until the 1890s. First shown as a 'Laird's' house in...24 KB (3,317 words) - 02:34, 12 March 2023
practical considerations into account. A similar 'ferm toun' existed at Bloak, near Auchentiber, until the 1890s. Duskwater Cottage was the blacksmith's...39 KB (5,343 words) - 17:56, 15 January 2024
- Rhymes: -əʊk bloak (plural bloaks) Archaic spelling of bloke. 1847, George W[illiam] M[acArthur] Reynolds, “Old Death”, in The Mysteries of London, volume
- going over a river at night. And Ned says as all the money went to the old bloak and to a brother in England, and that’s what he herd when he was paid off
- transition from one to the other could have been under way. Blout - also 'Bloak' - an upwelling of water, a spring or a wet, damp place (Scots). Bodger