Editing Portencross

[[Image:Seamill, Firth of Clyde.jpg|thumb|right|350px|from Seamill beach, looking south-west over the lower [[Firth of Clyde]] towards the southern part of [[Isle of Arran|Arran]] and [[Ailsa Craig]].]]

'''Seamill''' is a [[village]] in [[North Ayrshire]] on the west coast of [[Scotland]], about 5 miles north of [[Ardrossan]] and 8 miles south of [[Largs]]. 

It is sometimes considered part of [[West Kilbride]], and sometimes considered as a village in its own right. The local authority has sought to consolidate it with West Kilbride by signposting it as "West Kilbride incorporating Seamill", however its location on the major [[A78 road|A78 trunk road]] (West Kilbride proper is bypassed) means that it is still locally identified as an entity in its own right. 

It is named after one of its oldest buildings, the Sea Mill, a grain watermill that appears in Johannes Blaeu's Atlas of Scotland published in Amsterdam in 1654. Seamill village has a [[Country club|golf club]] known as ''West Kilbride Golf Club'', with a [[Putting green|putting practice green]] and a course with eighteen holes. 

It also has a [[hotel]] called the ''Seamill Hydro'' which has a [[swimming pool]], [[tennis court]] and a [[Association football|football]] pitch. The Seamill Hydro first opened in 1880, during the boom period of [[Hydrotherapy#Hydropathic establishment|hydropathic establishments]]. These commenced as mostly as therapeutic establishments, but over time morphed into hotel format, with Seamill Hydro being one of the few such surviving facilities from that era.<ref name="BradleyDupreeDurie" />

* [[West Kilbride]] 
* [[Portencross]]

==References==
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<ref name="BradleyDupreeDurie">{{Citation
 | last1 = Bradley | first1 = James
 | last2 = Dupree  | first2 = Mageurite
 | last3 = Durie   | first3 = Alastair
 | title = Taking the Water Cure: The Hydropathic Movement in Scotland, 1840-1940
 | journal = Business and Economic History
 | volume = 26
 | issue = 2
 | pages = 426–437
 | year = 1997
 | url = http://www.h-net.org/~business/bhcweb/publications/BEHprint/v026n2/p0426-p0437.pdf
 | accessdate = 2009-11-17
}}</ref>

}}

==External links==
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* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LlLdfy0aQGA The old mill at Seamill]
* [http://www.largshotels.com/Seamill-Hydro-Hotel-and-Spa.htm Seamill Hydro Hotel - only thing they overlook is the sea. Local knowledge hand picked for you from LargsHotels.com]

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[[Category:Villages in North Ayrshire]]


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