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The church of Ochiltree, Ayrshire, originally served a medieval parish whose vicarage was appropriated to Melrose Abbey. The parish church was rebuilt in 1789, the foundation stone being laid by the biographer James Boswell. The charge, which is now linked with Stair, is in Ayr presbytery and was in the synod of Glasgow and Ayr until the reorganisation of 1929, thereafter in the synod of Ayr. Synods were abolished in 1993. After 1929 it was briefly Ochiltree North, to distinguish it from the former United Free church, which became Ochiltree South. The two merged as Ochiltree in 1935. |