Complex sentence: It was founded by Cathcart Wason in the mid- 1870s and named by him after his old home Barrhill in South Ayrshire, Scotland, and set up as a model village for the workers of his large sheep farm.
Split into simpler sentences: It was founded by Cathcart Wason in the mid- 1870s and named by him after his old home Barrhill in South Ayrshire, Scotland. Wason set it up as a model village for the workers of his large sheep farm.