What is "mauchline"

Mauchline (; ) is a town and civil parish in East Ayrshire, Scotland. In the 2001 census Mauchline had a recorded population of 4,105. The town lies by the Glasgow and South Western Railway line, east south east of Kilmarnock and north east of Ayr. It is situated on a gentle slope about ) from the River Ayr, which flows through the south of the parish of Mauchline.

In former days Loch Brown was about 1 mile west of the town, but was drained when the railway line from Kilmarnock was built. Bruntwood Loch, near the old laird's house of that name, was once an important site for waterfowl, but drained for agriculture in the eighteenth century.