List of Ayrshire place-names beginning with 'U'

Underwood

Auchinleck (AUK)
Classification: Settlement
Grid reference: NS557205
Certainty: 1
Altitude: 106m
Elements: Sc under + Sc wuid

Description:

Presumably at some point this settlement lay underneath woodland, but this is not apparent from the recorded maps. The farm of Underwood was acquired by Boswell of Auchinleck along with Knockroon (q.v.), and a dispute regarding the road between them arose with the Earl of Dumfries. See The Correspondence, p. liii.

Underwood Mount

Auchinleck (AUK)
Classification: Relief
Grid reference: NS557207
Certainty: 1
Altitude: 120m
Elements: en Underwood + SSE mount

Description:

OSNB: 'An elevated portion of ground planted chiefly with Fir'.

Upper Beoch

New Cumnock (NCU)
Classification: Settlement
Grid reference: NS521102
Certainty: 1
Altitude: 274m
Elements: SSE upper + en Beoch

Description:

Upper, earlier Over, Beoch was a division of the lands of Beoch. Beoch had already been divided into three parts by 1452, since in a charter of that year both Over and *Middle Beoch (no longer extant) are mentioned (RMS ii no. 559). It can therefore be assumed that the counterpart to Over Beoch, namely Nether Beoch, was already in existence, although it does not appear on record until 1533 (RMS iii no. 1276). 

For an excellent very detailed discussion and description of the lands of Beoch and their divisions, see Beoch – NEW CUMNOCK HISTORY.

Upper Linn

New Cumnock (NCU)
Classification: Settlement
Grid reference: NS644150
Certainty: 1
Altitude: 257m
Elements: SSE upper + en (Mansfield) Linn

Description:

The lands of Linn lay on the Mansfield Estate. They take their name from the Mansfield Linn. They were divided into Upper (formerly High) Linn and Netherlinn. Both the farm-steadings are now ruined. Robert Guthrie on his New Cumnock website, writes: ‘The ruins of Upper Linn sit on the east bank of the Mansfield Burn some 200 metres upstream from the Mansfield Linn. It is commonly referred to as High Linn or High Lynn [in the Old Parish Records and] ‘Valuation Rolls and was home to tenants of the Mansfield Estate’ Linn Burn, Upper Linn, Netherlinn – NEW CUMNOCK HISTORY, which see for discussion of the Linn-names and photographs.
 

Upper Pennyvenie

Dalmellington (DAL)
Classification: Settlement
Grid reference: NS496071
Certainty: 1
Altitude: 265m
Elements: SSE upper + en Pennyvenie

Upper Tarrioch

Auchinleck (AUK)
Classification: Settlement
Grid reference: NS642269
Certainty: 1
Altitude: 188m
Elements: SSE upper + en Tarrioch

Description:

The form in Blaeu suggest this was originally called Over Tarrioch. For analysis of the name, see Tarrioch.

Upper Tarrioch Holm

Auchinleck (AUK)
Classification: Field
Grid reference: NS645268
Certainty: 1
Altitude: 187m
Elements: en Upper Tarrioch + SSE holm