page_title: Newton Loch, South Ayrshire
section_title: The draining of Newton Loch
hierarchical_section_title: Newton Loch, South Ayrshire / The draining of Newton Loch
caption_attribution_description: English: The old exit of the Newton Loch, Newton-on-Ayr promenade, Scotland.
context_page_description: Newton Loch was situated in a low-lying area near Newton-on-Ayr, South Ayrshire, just south of the old South and West Sanquhar Farms. It is now only visible as remnant heath land and surface darkening in pastureland, situated mainly in the Parish of Ayr and partly in St Quivox, South Ayrshire, Scotland.
  The original outflow of Newton Loch was directly into the sea at Newton-on-Ayr via the Half Mile Burn and another outflow was the lade that ran down the Newton-on-Ayr Main Street to the Newton Mill or Malt Mill that was located on the bank of the River Ayr near where the New Bridge of Ayr is located.
context_section_description: The loch served a practical purpose when it provided a water supply for the Newton or Malt Mill, however the farmers found the loch's land to be very rich leading to it being progressively drained and neatly divided up as shown on Ordnance Survey maps. The land in 2016 still appears from aerial images to be formed of a black, loamy soil.
  The First Moss Dails and the Second Moss Dails were the site of the loch, two of the five Dails or portions/shares of fields in Newton-on-Ayr. By 1747 only a small area of open water appears to be shown near Sanquhar Farm on Roys Map and the areas around are under cultivation. Andrew Armstrong's 1775 map indicates that no open water remained at all, however William Aiton's map of 1811 (see above) may indicate two open areas of water, one of which may be Newton Loch.
  The 1895 Ordnance Survey map does show a small area of surviving open water and associated wetland near Heathfield Road and this was possibly the last remnant of the once fairly extensive Newton Loch that is show as a wetland without open water in circa 1947 situated to the south of Heathlands Hospital in an area now occupied by a housing estate.
caption: The outlet of the Half Mile Burn at Newton-on-Ayr promenade.
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