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Patna
PATNA, a village and a quoad sacra parish in
Ayrshire. The village stands on the left bank of the Doon, and on the
road between Ayr and Dumfries, 10 miles south-east of Ayr, 7 east of
Maybole, and in the north corner of the parish of Straiton. Its houses
lie almost as aspersedly among the fields as a handful of sown corn
does among the clods. The landscape around it is confined, tumulated,
and bleak. The working of coal and limestone, both of which abound in
the neighbourhood, gives employment to the inhabitants. Population
236. The quoad sacra parish comprehends pendicles of no fewer than six
parishes, —Straiton, Kirkmichael, Dalmellington, Ochiltree, Coylton,
and Dalrymple; and has a population of about 630. The church was built
in 1837. An United Secession meeting-house was built in 1838, and a
neat manse for its minister in 1840. Both places of worship are
situated in the village, and are neat but very small. There is in the
village an endowed school.
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