Mauchline is a town as well as civil parish in East Ayrshire, Scotland. In the 2001 census Mauchline had a recorded population of 4,105. The community lies by the Glasgow as well as South Western Railway line, 8 miles (13 kilometres) east south east of Kilmarnock and 11 miles (18 kilometres) north east of Ayr. It is positioned on a gentle slope about 1 mile (1.6 km)) from the River Ayr, which flows via the south of the church of Mauchline. In former days Loch Brown had to do with 1 mile west of the community, yet was drained pipes when the railway line from Kilmarnock was developed. Bruntwood Loch, near the old laird's residence of that name, was as soon as a vital site for waterfowl, however drained for farming in the eighteenth century.