7 miles S.E. of Kilmarnock, and 12 E.N.E. of Ayr. The town is well built, and contains an Established, a Free, and a United Presbyterian church, several schools, a public library, a savings-bank, and other institutions. The inhabitants are employed in weaving, shoemaking, and the manufacture of wooden snuff-boxes, for which Mauchline is famous. The river is crossed in the neighbourhood by several bridges, one of which, at Bariskimming, is a structure of great elegance, consisting of a single arch 100 feet wide and 90 feet high. In the vicinity stands Mauchline Castle, an ancient edifice formerly in the possession of the Loudon family, who bear the title of Viscount Mauchline; and on Mauchline green there is a stone which commemorates the death of five Covenanters in 1685. But Mauchline derives its chief celebrity from being associated with the name of the poet Burns, who spent nine years of his life at the farm of Mossgiel in the neighbourhood. Pop. (1851) 1449.