Rigfoot

Place-name:	Rigfoot
Suggested Meaning:	bottom of the ridge
	Scot rig, rigg ‘ridge’ + SSE foot ‘bottom’
Blaeu Coila (1654):	N/A
OS Name Books (1855-57):	Rigfoot
Other names	Rigfoot No. 1 (colliery), Rigfoot Row, Lane View Cottage, Rigfoot
Location:	Ordnance Survey (1895)

Early Forms

Rigfutt (1663), Rigfoot (OPR 1707 -1755), Riggfoot (Census 1841-1921, Valuation Rolls 1855-1940)

Rigfoot

Scots rig,rigg ‘ridge’ + SSE foot ‘foot, bottom’

Rigfoot farm sat to the south of the River Nith some 600 yards to the east of Braehead farm. Despite the presence of the pair of place-name elements foot and head respectively, there is nothing to suggest the names are connected.

However, Rigfoot farm also sits less than a mile south of the farm of Righead and it is likely the names share the element Scots rig, rigg ‘ridge’ [1] although the ridge in question is not named. This suggests that the place-names are Rigfoot ‘foot, bottom of the ridge‘ and Righead ‘at ‘head, top of the ridge.’

N.B. the later form of the name, Riggfoot is interchangeable with Rigfoot.

The earliest reference of the name, found thus far, is Rigfutt, recorded in the Will and Testament of Charles Mitchell, 4th August 1663 [Scotlands People].

Although the name Ridgehead appears in the Blaeu Atlus Colia Provincia (1654), Riggfutt does not, although that is not say it did not exist then.

Old Parish Records

The Old Parish Records of Baptisms for the parish of New Cumnock date from 1706-1855 [Scotlands People] and among the early baptisms are those at Rigfoot and the children of Thomas Howatson and Isabel Black –

• 15 Jun 1707, Robert Howatson
• 15 Mar 1713, Margaret Howatson
• 06 Nov 1715, Marion Howatson

Coincidentally, or not, there was also a Howatson family in Righead where the following children of Robert Howatson and Jean Marshall were baptised –

• 25 Jul 1714, William Howatson
• 28 Jun 1719, Jean Howatson
• 22 Oct 1721, Elizabeth Howatson

Perhaps the fathers, Thomas and Robert Howatson, were brothers?

Others Rigfoot baptisms throughout the years were the children of William Howat & Agnes Dalzell (1720 twins, 1721); John Wilson & Jean Wight (1725); John Muir & Sarah Howatson (1726 x 2, 1728) ; Hugh Farquhar & Jean Wilson (1751,1753,1755) & James Park & Margaret McMillan (1810).

Of particular interest is the following Farquhar family –

I. Hugh Farquhar (b.1713 ? 1725 d.1766) & Jean Wilson

Hugh Farquhar and Jean Wilson were tenants at Rigfoot, which was part of the Dalleagles estate (see below). Together they had three children John (1751), Jean (1753) and William (1755) all baptised at Rigfoot. In 1763, the Dalleagles estate was put up for sale, which may have prompted the family to move elsewhere.

There is a record of a Testament Dative, 1766 of a Hugh Farquhar that died at Limmerhaugh in the parish Sorn [Scotlands People]. It is difficult to say for certain that this is Hugh from Rigfoot, however as discussed below his son William Farquhar later farmed at Whitehaugh, parish of Muirkirk, which sits a mile to the north of Limmerhaugh.

Hugh is possibly the son of William Farquhar & Elizabeth Hutchison who lived at Auchencross, some 700 yards north-west of Rigfoot on the opposite side of the River Nith. Together the couple had three children baptised at Auchencross, William (1708), Janet (1710) and Hugh (1713) before moving to Dalleagles, 2 miles south, where Robert (1718) and James (1721) were baptised. In 1724, son Alexander was baptised at Lochengirroch in Glen Afton. Meanwhile Jean Wilson (1729) may be the daughter of the aforementioned John Wilson and Jean Wight.

II. William Farquhar (b.1755 d. 1839) & Elizabeth Rankine (b.1762 d. 1853)

As discussed above Hugh and Jean had 3 children, known off, baptised at Rigfoot. It is not clear what became of the eldest son John, while daughter sister Jean married John Riddall, farmer at Lanehead in the parish of New Cumnock.

Meanwhile, youngest son William, married Elizabeth Rankine in the parish of Old Cumnock in 1785, at which time he was living in the parish of Muirkirk, probably as the tenant at Whitehaugh (Nether or Upper) for it was there on 28th December 1786, that the couple had a son Hugh, baptised [Scotlands People]. His name disappears from view, and he may have died in infancy.

William and Elizabeth later settled at Glenmuirshaw in the parish of Auchinleck. Although it is not clear when they took up the tenancy they were living there in 1811 as witnessed by the following extract from the Scots Magazine [2] –

On Monday the 28^th of August came on before Archibald Bell, Esq. Sheriff-depute of the county of Ayr, and a special Jury, the trial of William Farquhar, farmer at Glenmuirshaw, parish of Auchinleck, accused of altering the date of an invoice of six barrels American tar, and one puncheon palm oil, got from Messrs Cowan and Sloan, merchants there, from the date of Oct. 7 1811, to Oct. 7. 1814, with the intent to show that a puncheon of oil, got from the same house in 1814, was deficient in weight to the value of £1 5s 10d, and thereby to defraud them to that amount. Some objections to the charge were made by James Campbell, Esq. Counsel for the prisoner, which being answered by James Ferguson, Esq. Counsel for the Crown, were overturned by the Judge. The trial then commenced, and the pannel* pleaded Not Guilty. After the examination of a number of witnesses, the Jury unanimously found the pannel Guilty, and he was sentenced to three months imprisonment in the tollbooth of Ayr, and to pay a fine of £50 Sterling.

The Scots Magazine Volume 77, 1815

*pannel =acccused

Better times saw William Farquhar acquire the lands of Rigfoot from the Dalleagles estate, once tenanted by his parents and of course the place of his birth.

Dalleagles Estate

On 2nd September 1763, proprietor Adam Craufurd Newall of Polquhairn put the following properties up for sale ‘in whole or in parcels ‘[3] –

The Lands and Estate of DALEGLES, Auchingie or Braehead, and Calside, Rigfoot, Fardine and Dalricket-mill, mill lands, and multures.

Caledonian Mercury Monday 08 August 1763, p3

Hugh Mitchell, Captain in the Royal Marines purchased the properties in whole. He married Grizzel Logan, daughter of John Logan of Knockshinnoch & Laight, an acquaintance of Robert Burns. The lands were later held by Hugh Ross of Kerse, parish of Dalrymple before putting them up for sale in 1790. By the time of the publication of the Land Tax Roll of 1803 [Scotlands Places], Mrs General Stewart was recorded as the proprietor of the Dalleagles estate. This was Catherine Gordon Stewart who fell heir to the Gordon’s Barony of Afton, in the parish of New Cumnock and later the lands of Stair and it was at Stair House she met with Robert Burns.

Included in the Land Tax Roll 1803 was a hand written ‘Extract of the Cess Roll of the County of Ayr date 1816‘ which provides a breakdown of the properties of Mrs Stewart estate of Dalleagles and their associated tax, including Rigfoot.

Mrs General Stewart died at Stair in 1818 by which time the lands of Dalleagles had begun to be sold off as ‘parcels of properties‘. Included in the hand-written extract were the following 3 parcels and their owners, referred to as ‘These 3 articles amounting together to £309 2s 8d disjoined as under 30 April 1822‘.

These 3 articles appear to have been sold off at different times as James Cuthbert, vintner in Ayr, owned Dalleagles sometime on or before 1809 [4] while William Farquhar was still at tenant at Glenmuirshaw in 1815 and George Ranken already owned Whitehill and Auchingee in the parish of New Cumnock.

William Farquhar must have taken ownership of Rigfoot, also referred to as Riggfoot, during the period of 1815-1822. As a landowner, or heritor, he was assigned a seat in the opening of new parish church of New Cumnock on 20th May 1833 – ‘William Farquhar the seat No. 62 in full of his sitting‘ [5]. He passed away on 10th February 1839, at Riggfoot, aged 83 years.

William Farquhar’s Will & Testament (Scotland’s People) reveals that he still owned stock at Glenmuirshaw, Auchinleck, where his nephew William Haddow (son of his wife’s sister) was the herd. He also owned stock at Lithans, in the parish of New Cumnock, which was farmed by another nephew William Riddle (son of his sister).

In the 1841 Census, Elizabeth Farquhar, 75 is recorded as proprietor of Riggfoot and William Haddow, 40 as manager, with the remainder of the household comprising three ‘male servants‘ and one ‘female servant‘ and Sarah Rankin, 20 – presumably a relative of Elizabeth Farquhar (nee Rankin / Rankine).

In the 1851 Census, William Haddow, farmer, 135 acres, employing 4 labourers is recorded as Head of the household, which included his aunt Elizabeth Rankin 89; his aunt Hannah Riddel 60; his sister Mary Haddow, 57 & brother-in-law John Scott, 56 along with servants Elizabeth Connell 18, Mary McClymont, 16 and Andrew Rankine, 31.

Elizabeth Farquhar passed away on 12th April 1853, aged 91 and lies with her husband William, in the Auld Kirkyard, New Cumnock. Their names appear on the headstone, later erected in memory of William Haddow, which sadly has been badly damaged through the years.

III. William Haddow (b.1798 d. 1877) & Margaret Falconer (b.1835 d. 1905)

The entry in the Ayrshire Ordnance Survey Name Book (1855-57) for Rigfoot reads-

A good farm house and office occupied by the proprietor Mr William Haddow.

In 1853 William Haddow fell heir to the lands of Riggfoot following the death of his aunt Elizabeth Farquhar, nee Rankin [Scotlands People]. He was born at (East) Kilbride, Lanarkshire ca. 1798, the son of William Haddow and Margaret Rankin.

At Dundee, on the 18th November 1856, William, 58 married Margaret Falconer, 21, daughter of Robert Falconer, blacksmith, Nairn and Margaret Wilson. On 23rd September the following year their son William Falconer Haddow was born at Riggfoot.

The 1861 Census has the Haddow family living at Rigfoot along with three servants. In the adjoining residence, probably a cottage, and referred to as ‘Rigfoot Private‘ lived David McKerrow, ploughman and his wife Janet Park and infant daughter Margaret, born at Rigfoot.

The name of young William Haddow is missing from the 1871 Census Record of ‘Rigg Foot’, with father William Haddow, 72 recorded as farmer ‘of 160 Acres, 12 Arable, 9 men & 1 boy’. The adjoining residence was named as Rigg Foot Cottage and home to James Wilson, farm servant and his wife Mary Stitt and their two young children.

William Haddow senior, died at Riggfoot on 8th August, 1877 aged 79. In the 1881 Census Margaret Haddow is termed as a Landed Proprietor and William, junior, now back at Riggfoot, is referred to as a farmer’s son. Sadly, William passed away at Riggfoot in 1889. Margaret Haddow nee Falconer had outlived both her husband and son William. She moved out the farm and lived at Auchinleck (1891 Census) and then later at Bellvue, Ayr Road, Old Cumnock where she passed away in 1905, aged 70. All three of the Haddow family were buried in the family plot in the Auld Kirkyard, New Cumnock.

In the 1891 Census David Weir is the farmer at Riggfoot working alongside his sister Jean, having made the short journey from the neighbouring Braehead, farmed by their father David Weir, senior and mother Grace Steele. Another sibling Grace Hastings (nee Weir) lived at Riggfoot Cottage with her two yound children, while he husband Matthew Hastings, draper was boarding in Glasgow

The 1895 Valuation Rolls recorded both David Weir, senior Braehead and David Weir, junior as tenants at Riggfoot. The Rolls also revealed that the Lanemark Coal Company were tenants of the Riggfoot lands. The company was formed in 1865 and took their name from the nearby farm of Lanemark on which lands they held leases to work the coal and other minerals, as well as the lands of South Boig farm [6].

The 1901 Census recorded the following three families living at Riggfoot –

Alexander Pearson, farm grieve (manager) and his wife Margaret Dinning lived at Riggfoot farm along with 5 of their children, two of whom were born at Riggfoot (1898/1901) while another would be born there in 1903.

Robert McClement (Clement), pit sink contractor and his wife Janet Laidlaw lived at Riggfoot farm along with their 6 children, the first five were born at Dalmellington while their sixth was a one-month-old baby born at Riggfoot Farm. Also living there as boarders were John Quinn, mining contractor and William Smith, pit furnace stoker. The occupations of three men suggest that were employees of the Lanemark Coal company working at the Riggfoot Colliery (see below).

Meanwhile living at Riggfoot Cottage was David Murdoch, blacksmith and his wife Mary Affleck along with their two children, including one born at the cottage, and a neice. David, probably also worked at Riggfoot Colliery.

By the 1905 Valuation Rolls, Margaret Haddow was still the proprietor of Riggfoot (she passed away later that year) and the Lanemark Coal Company as suggested above now held the tenancy of Riggfoot farm and cottages. The tenants at that time were the above Alexander Pearson, ploughman and John Allan, labourer. The company had also built a miner’s row of 10 houses some 800 yards south of Riggfoot Farm near Riggfoot Colliery (see Riggfoot Row below).

However, in 1908 the Lanemark Coal Company went into liquidation and their leases were acquired by the New Cumnock Collieries Ltd.; formed the folllowing year [6]. This new company took ownership of Riggfoot House and Farm, associated cottage, Riggfoot Colliery and the Riggfoot Row.

Mackie family

The change in ownership saw the Mackie family established as tenants at Riggfoot, namely Adam Mackie senior, tenant at Hall of Auchincross farm (he would later own the property) and his son Adam Mackie, junior who moved into Riggfoot along with his wife Margaret Park and their son Adam. The family were recorded at Riggfoot Farm in the 1911 Census and again in the 1921 Census. Occupants at Riggfoot Cottage at the time were James Timpany, coalminer and his wife Margaret Smith and their young daughter in 1911 and William Murray, watchman (employed by the Ministry of Munitions), his wife Mary and their young son.

Following the death of Adam, senior in 1927, Adam junior inherited the property of Hall of Auchincross and relocated there with his family. His younger brother Andrew Mackie, took up the tenancy of Riggfoot with his wife Margaret Welsh, having previously lived at Auchincross Cottage.

Andrew and Margaret lived at Riggfoot until 1951, where they died within 2 months each other, Margaret in March and Andrew in May. During their tenure the Mackie family presumably took ownership of Riggfoot, perhaps in 1946 after the New Cumnock Collieries Ltd. dissolved following the nationalisation of the coal industry.

A snapshot of Riggfoot farm can be found in the following newspaper article when it was put up for sale in February 1957 [7] –

PARISH OF NEW CUMNOCK

FOR SALE BY PRIVATE BARGAIN, the ATTESTED DAIRY FARM of RIGGFOOT

Situated 4 1/2 miles west of New Cumnock* and 5 miles south of Cumnock, near Dalleagles in owner’s occupation.

The extent of the land is 169 acres (100 acres arable and 69 acres rough grazing), immediate entry can be given to the ploughable land and entry at 28th May 1957 (or earlier by mutual arrangement) entry to the remainder.

DWELLINGHOUSE comprises 3 public rooms 1 bedroom, kitchen, pantry, and bathroom (h. and c.) on ground floor and 2 bedrooms and boxroom upstairs. Man’s room above kitchen.

STEADING comprises commodious dairy premises, dairy byre for 30 cows; other byres for 16 cows and 6 cows and loose box; pig house (4 pens suitable for either calves or pigs); boiler house and meal house; barn, stable (3 stalls), and garage; 2 lean-to sheds for coal and fuel and implement shed, tractor house; large 4-bay hayshed.

Adequate water supply from country mains. Electricity will be available this year from the South of Scotland Electricity Board.

Assessed Rental, £97

Further particulars from Messrs. R. D. HUNTER & CO., Solicitors, Commercial Bank Buildings, Cumnock (Tele Cumnock 3285/6) who will receive offers. Arrangements to inspect farm may be made direct with Mr. T. B. BEGG at Riggfoot (Telephone Dalleagles 214)

The Scotsman, Friday, February 22, 1957

*It is fairer to say that Riggfoot is 2 1/2 miles west of New Cumnock

The Mr. T. B. Begg at Riggfoot was Thomas Blane Begg, the husband of Margaret Mackie, daughter of Andrew and Margaret Mackie, and the couple had previously lived at Riggfoot Cottage since their marriage in 1931.

Rigfoot* Colliery

*The form Rigfoot preferred to Riggfoot

The Lanemark Coal Company began to sink what was named Rigfoot No. 1 in 1895, just over 1/2 mile south of Rigfoot farm, taking almost 5 years to complete and at a cost that ‘imposed a severe strain on the Company’s resources‘ [6].

Nevertheless, there was a sense of pride at the Annual General Meeting in 1899 [6] –

… it was reported that the Rigfoot shaft was completed at a depth of 214 fathoms – then the deepest in Scotland – and that in the process of sinking, three coal seams of excellent quality had been passed through. Communication mines were then being driven, and it was believed that good production was just around the corner. One hundred tons a day were raised in 1900, an output which, it was believed, was capable of immediate and rapid expansion. While the profit 1899 was only £115, substantial increases were shown in the next year or two.

J. L. Carvel, The New Cumnock Coal-Field (1938)

However, it proved to be a false dawn – ‘pumping costs became excessive, more than one-third of the output was required to pay for keeping Rigfoot clear of water‘ and the Lanemark Coal Company could not attract fresh capital and their leases to work the coal and minerals in the parish of New Cumnock expired in 1908.

William Hyslop of the New Bank Coal Company entered into negotiations with the neighbouring landowners and in 1909 formed the New Cumnock Collieries Ltd. to operate the leases of both the Lanemark Coal and New Bank Coal Companies. In addition the new company owned the miners houses. One of the first actions of New Cumnock Collieries Ltd. was to purchase the lands of Rigfoot, i.e. not lease, in order to close down Rigfoot Colliery [6].

Today, all that remains in the location to Rigfoot No. 1 are grass covered spoil heaps.

Rigfoot Row

In preparation for Rigfoot No. 1 coming on stream the Lanemark Coal Company built more houses alongside the existing miners’ rows at Connel Park in for the additional workforce and their families. In addition, a row of 10 houses was also built nearby to Rigfoot No. 1 Rigfoot Colliery, primarily to house colliery officials and key surface workers.

By the time of the Valuation Rolls of 1905 the occupations of the tenants of the Rigfoot Row still still reflect those of colliery officials and key surface workers, despite the uncertain future for Rigfoot No. 1.

As discussed, the Lanemark Coal Company folded in 1908 and the newly formed New Cumnock Collieries Ltd. took control of the coalfield in this part of the parish of New Cumnock as well as the houses for their employees and their families. Although the company closed Rigfoot No.1 they kept Rigfoot Row as accommodation for their employees at other pits.

Soon there would be ‘unfamiliar surnames’ in the miners’ rows. In early October 1914, the city of Antwerp, Belgium fell to the advancing German army. An Ayrshire Committee had already been established and a collection of money had been raised on behalf of ‘Belgian Refugees’, however its focus changed to finding accommodation for those refugees fleeing to Britian with New Cumnock playing its part [8] -.

At New Cumnock, through the kindness of New Cumnock Collieries Ltd., 11 empty houses have been given and 11 families, comprising 48 refugees accommodated’

Irvine Herald, Friday 22 January 1915

The 1915 Valuation Rolls show three Belgian families at Rigfoot Row of the surnames – Lenares, Donpagnie and Jacquemart.

George Sanderson in ‘New Cumnock Far and Away’ [9] identified the above three families, albeit with different spelling, i.e. Linaeres, Doupayne and Jacqumart along with the family Schramme as later arrivals. Before that he noted the families of Brys, Staes, De Chesue*, Callewaert and Lancelot as the first Belgian families to be housed at Connel Park (3) , Craigbank (2) and Riggfoot (5).

*There were two Dechesne children born at Blair Street, Craigbank to Joseph Dechesne and Arnoldine Germay. The first born was Henrik Joseph in July 1915, when his father was a shoemaker. The second born Francois Joseph Jacques in November 1916, his father now an engine-keeper, but sadly died 10 months later when the family were living at Stepends Row.

Thus far, two births at Riggfoot (Row) have been identified, namely – Augustus Ludovicus De Mayer, son of Emiel De Mayer, coal miner and Maria Vervoort (married at Gelrode, Belgium) on 13th August 1917 and later on 28th January 1918 Catharina Victorina Verstreken, daughter of Victor Verstreken, coal miner and Leonarda Van Hoegaerden (married Wezemaal, Belgium) – the father, Victor was domicil in Belgium at Gelrode in the Province of Brabant. Sadly on 23rd October 1918, Jeanette Rely (nee Verlinden), aged 40 years, died of influenza, heart failure at 10 Riggfoot Row. Her husband Evarist Rely, coal miner was domicil in Aarschot, province of Brabant at the time [Scotland’s People].

The Valuation Rolls from 1915-1940 of Rigfoot Row reflect the change in occupation of tenants from colliery officials / surface workers to miners.

Laneview Cottage, Rigfoot

Also appearing in the Valuations Rolls (1895-1940) is Laneview Cottage.

Initially owned by the Lanemark Coal Company the address was Lanemark pit (presumably Rigfoot No. 1) when the tenants were Peter Murphy (1895) and David King (1905), both oversman. Following the closure of Rigfoot No. 1 colliery the cottage was taken over by the New Cumnock Collieries and the address was now Laneview Cottage, Rigfoot. They were home to James Baillie (1915/1920) and John Murdoch (1925/1940), both blacksmiths.

Rigfoot today

The map below shows the farm boundaries (1944-55) superimposed on the Ordnance Survey Map (1895) which shows that the east boundary of Rigfoot is defined by the Lane Burn while the River Nith also forms part of its northern boundary.

*Scotlands People: reference RHP75835 Ordnance Survey 6 inch plan (Ayrshire, sheet XLI.SE) marked to show farm boundaries [1944-1955]

The photo below was taken in 2007 from the lands of Auchincross on north side of the River Nith. Rigfoot farm house can be seen on the opposite side of the Nith surrounded by a clump of trees while a linear plantation of trees runs southwards.

I recall Margaret McWhirter of Riggfoot as an active member of the New Cumnock Local and Natural History Society in the 1970s and perhaps it was her family that were the last occupants of Rigfoot farm?

Nothing remains of Rigfoot / Riggfoot farm today, ironically due to opencast coal workings in the upper reaches of the River Nith, in this case an extension of the Greenburn Surface Mining operation conducted by Kier Construction Ltd. (Mining Division). CFA Archaeology Ltd. carried out a ‘Desk-Based Assessment and Standing Building Survey’ in November 2011, by which time the farm had been abandoned, and issued the report in January 2012 [10].

The landscape has changed dramatically with a man-made ‘lochan’ covering the site of Rigfoot farmhouse and much more. The deserted Braehead farm can be seen on the on higher ground to the right. Again the photo is taken from the north of Rigfoot from the higher ground on the lands of Auchincross.

Below, another view from the south-west shows the deserted Braehead farm on the left and the ‘Rigfoot lochan’ on the right. The photo also shows the higher land to the north of Rigfoot which is likely to be the Scots rig, rigg ‘ridge ‘that gives its name to Rigfoot, at the ‘foot of the ridge‘.

The change to the course of the River Nith during the opencast operations is shown below.

N.B. There is a path through the grassland from the abandoned Braehead to the former site of Rigfoot.

‘Rigfoot lochan’

River Nith

Maps

Reproduced with the Permission of National Library of Scotland

https://maps.nls.uk/

Map 1: Ordnance Survey Maps – 25 inch 1st edition, Scotland, 1855-1882 (1857)| Rigfoot

Map 2: Ordnance Survey, 1:25,000 maps of Great Britain, 1937-1961 (1957) | Riggfoot and Righead

Map 3: Ordnance Survey, One-inch to the mile maps of Scotland, 2nd Edition,1885-1900 (1895)|Limmerhaugh

Map 4: Andrew Armstrong, A new map of Ayrshire… (1775) |Rigfoot, Dalleagles estate

Map 5: Ordnance Survey Maps – Six-inch 2nd and later editions, Scotland, 1892-1960 (1895) |Rigfoot No. 1

Map 6: Ordnance Survey Maps – 25 inch 2nd and later editions, Scotland, 1892-1949 (1895) | Rigfoot No. 1

Map 7: Ordnance Survey Maps – 25 inch 2nd and later editions, Scotland, 1892-1949 (1908) |Rigfoot No.1 (top)

Map 8: Ordnance Survey Maps – 25 inch 2nd and later editions, Scotland, 1892-1949 (1908) |Rigfoot No. 1 (bottom)

Map 9: Ordnance Survey Maps – 25 inch 2nd and later editions, Scotland, 1892-1949 (1908) |Rigfoot Row

Map 10: Ordnance Survey Map – Scotlands People: reference RHP75835 Ordnance Survey 6 inch plan (Ayrshire, sheet XLI.SE) marked to show farm boundaries [1944-1955]

Map 11: Ordnance Survey Maps – 25 inch 2nd and later editions, Scotland, 1892-1949 (1908)

References

[1] Dictionary of the Scots Language. 2004. Scottish Language Dictionaries Ltd. |rig, rigg

[2] British Newspaper Archive | The Scots Magazine Volume 77, 1815

[3] British Newspaper Archive | Caledonian Mercury Monday 08 August 1763, p3

[4] New Cumnock History: Heritors | James Cuthbert, Dalleagles

[5] New Cumnock History: Heritors | William Farquhar, Riggfoot

[6] J. L. Carvel, New Cumnock Coalfield (1938)

[7] British Newspaper Archive |The Scotsman, Friday, February 22, 1957

[8] British Newspaper Archive |Irvine Herald, Friday 22 January 1915

[9] George Sanderson ‘New Cumnock Far and Away’

[10] S. Mitchell, Riggfoot Farm, Dalricket, New Cumnock, East Ayrshire Desk-Based Assessment and Standing Building Survey. CFA Archaeology Ltd. (2012).

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

Ordnance Survey Name Books

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Ayrshire OS Name Books (1855-57) Vol. 49| Rigfoot