Polnessan
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![]() The A713 at Polnessan | |
Location within East Ayrshire | |
Population | 87 |
OS grid reference | NS 4192 1170 |
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Lieutenancy area |
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Country | Scotland |
Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
Post town | AYR |
Postcode district | KA6 |
Police | Scotland |
Fire | Scottish |
Ambulance | Scottish |
UK Parliament | |
Scottish Parliament | |
Polnessan (Scottish Gaelic: Poll an Easain, pool on the small waterfall) is a small rural village in East Ayrshire, Scotland. Polnessan has a population of 87, and is located a mile north of Patna on the A713 road.
Polnessan has no facilities, and is effectively a long row of council housing. The houses were originally built by Ayr County Council for miners and their families on the Houldsworth pit, a nearby coal mine first sunk by Dalmellington Iron Company in 1900.[1]
There are bus services to Ayr and Dalmellington regularly from Polnessan, run by the Stagecoach bus company, as well as postal facilities.
References
[edit]- ^ "Polnessan East Ayrshire". Gazetteer for Scotland. Retrieved 30 January 2019.
External links
[edit]Media related to Polnessan at Wikimedia Commons