See and do

This important thoroughfare road was originally known as Smiddy or Smithy Bar.

Barr is a small village in the South West of Ayrshire, around 8 miles from the town of Girvan.

The formidable-looking Maybole Castle is a four-storey garret tower in the Ayrshire town of Maybole.

Kirkoswald is a small but picturesque village in South Ayrshire, located 4 miles south west of Maybole.

Penkill Castle is a 16th-century castle north-east of Girvan in South Ayrshire, Scotland.

Monument memorialising Lesley Baillie, a muse who inspired several of Robert Burns' ballads and poems

Ballantrae is an attractive coastal village in South Ayrshire situated 13 miles south of Girvan.

Irvine Townhouse once housed the North Ayrshire district court and general administration for the council.

Dalmellington is a picturesque market town in East Ayrshire near to the Rye Burn. It has a population of around 1400 people.

Auchinleck is a small village in East Ayrshire. The name in Gaelic means "field of flat stones”

Carleton Castle is a 15th-century five-storey tower, and a Category B-Listed building.

The ruins of majestic 16th-century Greenan Castle guard the cliffs of south-west Ayr, overlooking the Firth of Clyde

Kilmarnock is one of the largest towns in Ayrshire, with a population of 46,350.

New Cumnock is a former mining town in East Ayrshire. It expanded during the 18th century; mining remained its main industry until pits closed in the 1960s.

The McKechnie Institute opened in 1889, thanks to the generosity of local business man Thomas McKechnie