See and do

Not to be confused with The Wallace Monument in Stirling, the Wallace Tower in Ayr predates its Stirling sibling by approximately a decade (1855-7)

Trinity Church was designed by Edinburgh architect Frederick Thomas Pilkington in 1863

Little Cumbrae Lighthouse was completed in 1793 by Thomas Smithand and Robert Stevenson

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 Giants' Graves are the remains of two Neolithic chambered tombs surrounded by tall trees near Whiting Bay on Arran.

Tarbolton a small village in South Ayrshire, lying between Mauchline and Prestwick in South Ayrshire.

The Abbey was founded sometime between 1162 and 1188 with monks coming from Kelso in the Scottish Borders. Its ruins sit in the centre of the town.

Seamill is a village on the west coast of Scotland, about 5 miles north of Ardrossan and 8 miles south of Largs, on the east coast of the Firth of Clyde.

Prominent Category B listed cotton mill complex established in 1831

Dumfries House is a 1750s Palladian country house in Ayrshire, Scotland.

Drongan is a former mining village, in West Ayrshire approximately 8 miles from Ayr.

Kilchattan Bay is a small village on the south of the Isle of Bute which lies at the foot of a steep hill called the Suidhe Chattan.

Sculpture by Andy Scott commemorating a Greenock working-horse

Kirktonhall, is one of the oldest buildings in West Kilbride, built in 1660 it is the birthplace of Robert Simson (1687)

Barrhill is a small village in South Ayrshire between Girvan and Newton Stewart in South Ayrshire.