Dalmellington (Scots: Dawmellinton,[2] Scottish Gaelic: Dail M'Fhaolain)[3] is a market town and civil parish in East Ayrshire, Scotland.

[4] The town owes its origins to the fault line separating the Southern Uplands of Scotland from the Central Lowlands.

The Chalmerston open cast coal mine to the north of the village covered some 742 hectares, but the operations have now ceased and the first phase of the site restoration has been completed.

In the medieval period Dalmellington was part of Kyle Stewart and under the rule of a series of Norman lords, invited to Scotland by the king to assist in subduing the country.

The town grew after James Watt's steam engine had made deeper mine workings feasible, and the completion of the railway in 1858.

The Loch Doon Aerial Gunnery School Railway ran from near Dalmellington station to Dalfarson, close to Craigengillan House.

The band have had notable success in contests and have their name inscribed on every major competition trophy in Scotland, including three Scottish Championship wins.

This would lead Horizon to be short because the subpostmaster repeatedly attempted to send the transfer, believing it to have failed when screen freezes forced them to log off.

The Post Office held subpostmasters responsible for any shortfalls that couldn’t be explained and prosecuted them for theft and false accounting.

Dalmellington was proof a bug did exist and was used as evidence in the 2018/19 High Court case, where Sir Alan Bates and 550 other subpostmasters proved that computer errors could be to blame for accounting shortfalls.