page_title: Lands of Blacklaw
section_title: The Estate and farms
hierarchical_section_title: Lands of Blacklaw / History / The Estate and farms
caption_attribution_description: English: Old Blacklaw Bridge date stone (1770) on the north abutment, Kingsford, Strathannick, East Ayrshire
context_page_description: The Lands of Blacklaw formed a small property of five merks worth, in the Lordship of Stewarton at the eastern extremity of Strathannick, between the hamlet of Kingsford in East Ayrshire and the East Renfrewshire boundary, Scotland. It was first recorded in 1484 in the Acta Auditorum. Black Law is a prominent whinstone crag lying above Blacklaw Hill Farm.
context_section_description: In 1820 the lands of Whitelaw and Blacklaw amounted to 700 acres and the proprietors "live also together in townships". The valued rent of the three properties at Blacklaw were William Gray at £62; John Brown at £62 and Thomas Wallace at £52.
  Black Law has had a number of whinstone quarries for local use, such as the steadings, drystone dykes and the Old Blacklaw Bridge. A track led up from Blacklaw Hill Farm to the site.
caption: Datestone on the Old Blacklaw Bridge.
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