Joppa is a hamlet in

South Ayrshire South Ayrshire ( sco, Sooth Ayrshire; gd, Siorrachd Àir a Deas, ) is one of thirty-two council areas of Scotland, covering the southern part of Ayrshire. It borders onto Dumfries and Galloway, East Ayrshire and North Ayrshire. On 30 June 2 ...

, Scotland, about west of Coylton and east of Belston, on the

A70 road The A70 road is a major road in Scotland, United Kingdom . It runs a total of from Edinburgh to Ayr. It begins as Dalry Road at the Haymarket, Edinburgh junction with the A8, passing near but not through Lanark and ending as Miller Road in Ayr ...

. Footballer

Archie Hunter Archibald Hunter (23 September 1859 – 29 November 1894) was a Scottish Association football, footballer who was the first captain of Aston Villa F.C., Aston Villa to lift the FA Cup, in 1887 FA Cup Final, 1887. He was one of Victorian football' ...

was born in Joppa in 1859.

Lochend Loch Lochend may refer to the following places: Scotland * Lochend, Edinburgh, a suburb of Edinburgh, named after ** Lochend House, an occupied house containing the remnants of a 16th-century castle ** Lochend Loch (Edinburgh), a small lake near Loche ...

lies above Joppa near to Lochend Farm and Gallowhill.

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* Villages in South Ayrshire {{SouthAyrshire-geo-stub