Saltcoats

Coordinates: 55°38′07″N 4°47′23″W / 55.6352°N 04.7896°W / 55.6352; -04.7896

Saltcoats (Scottish Gaelic: Baile an t-Salainn) is a small town on the west coast of North Ayrshire, Scotland. The name is derived from the town's earliest industry when salt was harvested from the sea water, carried out in small cottages along the shore. It is part of the "Greater Ardrossan" or "Three Towns" conurbation along with Ardrossan and Stevenston.

Transport

The harbour was designed by James Jardine in 1811.

Saltcoats is served by regular bus and train services. Primary bus services are provided by Stagecoach West Scotland, while rail services are operated by SPT.

Although Saltcoats currently only has a single railway station, the town was once served by a second railway station to the north of the town, originally as part of the Lanarkshire and Ayrshire Railway. This station closed to regular services on 4 July 1932, and there is no trace of the station today bar a nearby bridge.

Government and politics

Saltcoats (disambiguation)

Saltcoats may refer to:

Saltcoats (provincial electoral district)

Saltcoats was a provincial electoral district for the Legislative Assembly of the province of Saskatchewan, Canada, centered on the town of Saltcoats. One of 25 districts created before the 1st Saskatchewan general election in 1905, it was abolished before the 8th Saskatchewan general election in 1934.

The district was reconstituted before the 1938 election. It is now part of the constituency of Melville-Saltcoats.

Members of the Legislative Assembly

1905–1934

1938–2003

Election results

See also

Saltcoats – Northwest Territories territorial electoral district (1870–1905).

References

Coordinates: 50°57′N 101°57′W / 50.950°N 101.950°W / 50.950; -101.950