Lands of Bogston
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Bogston also known as Bogstone was a small estate in the old Barony of Giffen near Barrmill in the Parish of Beith, North Ayrshire, once held by collateral descendants of the Montgomeries of Broadston
Bogstone Farm
The farm of Gatend.
Giffen railway station
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Giffen railway station was a railway station approximately one mile south-west of the village of Barrmill, North Ayrshire, Scotland. The station was part of the Lanarkshire and Ayrshire Railway.
Lands of Bogston
…shelter and the belt of forest trees were felled. In 1906 a short mineral freight line joined the nearby Barr colliery coal pit with the main line near Giffen station. In its latter days, Bogston was a farm, sitting close to the Bombo Burn with a large area of land next to it recorded on the OS map as 'Bogston Meadow…
The remains of Giffen station in 2006
Old sign for munitions traffic operations
Giffen station in the late 19th century
Looking towards Barrmill from the Giffen overbridge in 2008