Prestwick from the Past The Cross & Various Streets Of The Town

Prestwick's name comes from the Old English for, priest's farm: preost meaning "priest" and wic meaning "farm". The town was originally an outlying farm of a religious house. Although it has been a Burgh of Barony for over a thousand years, it was a village until the railway arrived in the 1840s and the middle class from Glasgow started to build large houses along the coast. This collection is a pictorial record of the town and how it has changed through the years and aims to inspire memories and comments from both residents past and present