See and do

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

Set into a rocky red sandstone outcrop overlooking the River Lugar, Peden's Cave served as the rumoured hide-out for persecuted Covenanters throughout the 17th century

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

Statuesque ruined 16th-century tower-house castle overlooking the Firth of Clyde

The town of Irvine is a large town with a long history.

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

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

Colmonell is a small village and civil parish in the Stinchar Valley, South Ayrshire, Scotland.

Lady Isle is a small, uninhabited island, in the Firth of Clyde

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

Dalquharran Castle is an 18th century category-A listed building in South Ayrshire.

Maidens is a little coastal village situated on the Firth of Clyde at the southern end of Maidenhead Bay.

Stewarton is a small town in East Ayrshire, around 6 mile away from Kilmarnock and a population of approximately 6500.

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 Boswell Quill is situated in Auchinleck’s historic churchyard and celebrates writer James Boswell, the inventor of modern biography.