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AYTON, village and parish on coast of Berwickshire. The village stands on Eye water, 21 miles south-east of Dunbar, and has a head post office with all departments, a railway station, 2 banking offices, 3 inns, a fine parochial church of 1865, 2 United Presbyterian churches, and 2 public schools with about 233 scholars. Pop. 771. The parish contains also part of Burnmouth village, and small part of Eyemouth town, and measures about 4J miles by 3. Acres, 6699. Real property in 1880-81, 15,897. Pop. 2040. The coast is rocky and precipitous ; the southern part of the interior is hilly, and the northern part is .undulating. The seats are Ayton Castle, Gunsgreen, Netherbyres, Prenderguest, Peelwalls, and Whiterig ; and the first of them stands near the village, was rebuilt in 1851, and occupies the site of an ancient fortalice which figured in the Border war-fare. A public school is at Burnmouth.
