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Knockentiber (Scottish Gaelic: Cnoc an Tobair, hill of the well) is a village in East Ayrshire, Parish of Kilmaurs, Scotland. Knockentiber is west-northwest of Kilmarnock and northeast of Crosshouse. Latitude:55.6193°N Longitude:4.5455°W and . The population was 359 in 1991, however the population is much higher following the construction of several housing estates (2007). In the 18th and 19th and mid 20th centuries the locality was a highly industrialised coal mining district. The settlement is on the Carmel Burn, which runs into the River Irvine, around to the south.

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Knockentiber
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Alba / Scotland
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19 sections
Contents
  • Introduction
  • History
  • Busbie Castle
  • Knockentiber's greenhills
  • Diehard's raid on Greenhill Farm
  • The Barony of Robertoun
  • Thorntoun and other estates
  • The collieries, coal pits, brickworks and quarries
  • Miner's rows
  • The railway
  • The turnpike
  • Farms
  • Busbie Mill
  • Football club
  • Local history and traditions of the area
  • Views of Knockentiber and Busbie
  • See also
  • References and Bibliography
  • External links

Knockentiber (Scottish Gaelic: Cnoc an Tobair, hill of the well) is a village in East Ayrshire, Parish of Kilmaurs, Scotland. Knockentiber is west-northwest of Kilmarnock and northeast of Crosshouse. Latitude:55.6193°N Longitude:4.5455°W and . The population was 359 in 1991, however the population is much higher following the construction of several housing estates (2007). In the 18th and 19th and mid 20th centuries the locality was a highly industrialised coal mining district. The settlement is on the Carmel Burn, which runs into the River Irvine, around to the south.

== Introduction == thumb|left|200px|McNaught's map of the Parish of Kilmaurs 1912 Knockentiber lies on the old toll road from Kilmaurs to Crosshouse, with a junction for Kilmarnock and a country road leading to Busbiehill, West Plann, Southhook and ultimately the Cunninghamhead and Perceton districts. A minor road branches off for Busbiehill and Knockentiber.

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