page_title: Shewalton House and estate
section_title: Micro-history
hierarchical_section_title: Shewalton House and estate / The Shewalton area / Micro-history
caption_attribution_description: English: Shewalton Sandpits Nature Reserve Largest of a series of water bodies which were former sand workings.
context_page_description: Shewalton House and estate were composed of the 'Lands of Shewalton' and the laird's dwelling, originally a tower castle and later a mansion house on the River Irvine in the Shewalton area, two miles from Irvine and west of Drybridge village, East Ayrshire, Dundonald Parish, Scotland. In 1883 the Boyle's estate of Shewalton was 2,358 acres in extent in Ayrshire and was worth at that time £2,708 a year.
context_section_description: The Caledonian Pulp Mill is located on the western margin of Shewalton Moss. It was opened in 1989 by the Duke of Edinburgh. The factory produces glossy paper for magazines and other publications, using china clay brought in by train from Cornwall. After Shewalton House was demolished a ball bearing factory was built nearby and the industrial estate also built here occupies part of the old estate's deer park.
  Johnson's 1828 map gives the name 'Paulston' for a dwelling on Shewalton Road and the 'stone' or menhir is both shown and named as such.
  GlaxoSmithKline have a large factory nearby on Shewalton Road that manufactures prescription products.
  Shewalton Woods, Shewalton Sand Pits, Oldhall Ponds and the nearby Trocol Pond are Scottish Wildlife Trust nature reserves.
  Extensive sand and gravel extraction has taken place within the Shewalton area leaving flooded quarries and areas used by North Ayrshire Council for disposing of certain categories of household waste.
caption: Flooded sand and gravel quarry at Shewalton.
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