South Ayrshire
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About South Ayrshire
South Ayrshire is known for its high quality visitor attractions and many leisure facilities but most famously for being Robert Burns country. South Ayrshire is another Scottish county famous for its wonderful golfing opportunities with many golf courses including the Open Championship courses of Turnberry and Royal Troon.
Ayr is the main town and administrative centre of the South Ayshire and country town and birthplace of Robert Burns. As such there are many visitor attractions associated with Scotland's national poet. Ayr is the largest town on the Firth of Clyde coast and has been an important seaport and trading centre for many centuries and, at one time, was almost as important and as large as Glasgow. During the Victorian age of scottish tourism Ayr benefitted greatly, becoming a popular destination for the middle classes. Today Ayr is a busy town with many popular landmarks and plenty to keep the tourist occupied.
Alloway was once only a small village known as the birthplace of Robert Burns. Today it is an extended village on the outskirts of Ayr and considered by many to be just suburb. The town is dominated by the historic association with Burns with the Burns National Heritage Park taking in the most important sites with Burns Cottage and Museum being the most important and most visited and the old ruins of Alloway Kirk where Robert Burns set his famous, and possibly finest, poem "Tam o' Shanter".
Things to see and do around South Ayrshire
Culzean Castle And Country Park, Maybole includes a deer park, an adventure playground and woodland walks. The castle was designed towards the end of the 18th Century and is open to the public between the months of April and October.
Tel: 01655 760274
Burns Heritage Park, Murdoch's Lane, Alloway, is the start of the Robert Burns Trail at the small thatched cottage in which he was born in 1759.. Inside is an audio-visual presentation of his life and the adjoined museum has displays of Burns artifacts and original manuscripts. Other highlights include the Tam O'Shanter Experience which presents the poem with the use of a multi-media daramatisation.
Tel: 01292 443700
South Ayrshire Links
South Ayrshire Council
The official site of South Ayrshire County Council.
Ayr Hotels
Ayr hotel and accommodation listings.