Top 12 Tourist Attractions in Ayr - Travel Scotland, United Kingdom
Top 12 Tourist Attractions in Ayr - Travel Scotland, United Kingdom:
Culzean Castle and Country Park, Heads of Ayr Farm Park, Robert Burns Birthplace Museum, Ayr Seafront Playpark, Burns Monument and Gardens, Burns National Heritage Park, The Races at Ayr Racecourse, Rozelle Park, Pirate Pete's, Lang Scots Mile, The Low Green, Belleisle Park
North Ayrshire Tourist Attractions: 15 Top Places to Visit
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Top Places to visit in North Ayrshire:
Dalgarven Mill, Portencross Castle, Scottish Maritime Museum, Eglinton Country Park, Caledonian MacBrayne, Cathedral of the Isles, Irvine Beach, Saltcoats Beach, Kilwinning Abbey Tower, Kelburn Castle and Country Centre, Seamill Beach, Newton Beach, The Pencil, Stevenston Beach, Wellwood Burns Centre & Museum
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Places to see in ( Ayr - UK )
Places to see in ( Ayr - UK )
Ayr is a large town and former Royal Burgh situated on the west coast of Ayrshire in Scotland, United Kingdom. It is the administrative centre of the South Ayrshire Council area and historic county town of Ayrshire. Ayr is currently the most populated settlement in Ayrshire and is the 12th most populous settlement in Scotland. The town adjoins the smaller town of Prestwick to the north, forming a single continuous urban area with the town.
Ayr was established as a Royal Burgh in 1205, serving as Ayrshire's central marketplace and harbour throughout the Medieval Period and remaining a well-renowned port across the Early Modern Period. On the southern bank of the River Ayr sits the ramparts of a Citadel constructed by Oliver Cromwell during the mid-17th Century. Towards the south of the town is the birthplace of Scottish poet Robert Burns in the suburb of Alloway. With the expansion of the railway during the 19th Century Ayr soon developed into a seaside resort. This remains the case today with tourism occupying a significant sect of the local economy in Ayr through the opening of a Butlin's holiday park on the southern headlands of the town and through the continued presence of the Gaiety Theatre, which ran various shows across the late 20th century attracting performers from across the United Kingdom.
Politically, Ayr is considerably more Conservative-voting than the remainder of Scotland, being represented by a Conservative MP continuously for a period of 91 years – from 1906 (as part of the Ayr Burghs constituency) until 1997. The town forms part of the Ayr constituency in the Scottish Parliament, the first Conservative constituency seat in the Parliament, which has been represented by Conservative MSP John Scott since a by-election in 2000. In the UK Parliament Ayr is situated within the Ayr, Carrick and Cumnock constituency.
Ayr is one of the largest retail centres along the south of Scotland and was recognised as the second healthiest town centre in the United Kingdom by the Royal Society for Public Health in 2014. Ayr has hosted the Scottish Grand National horse-racing steeplechase annually since 1965. The town also accommodates the headquarters of the Ayr Advertiser and Ayrshire Post newspapers and the West FM radio station.
The Ayr railway station has regular services to Glasgow Central station, Edinburgh Waverley, Stranraer, Girvan and Kilmarnock]. All services are operated by Abellio ScotRail. The town is served by the Glasgow Prestwick International Airport just 2 miles (3 km) north from Ayr, which offers regional and domestic air services across Europe and the British Isles. Ayr is served by three major motorway systems.
Alot to see in ( Ayr - UK ) such as :
Culzean Castle
Royal Troon Golf Club
Alloway Auld Kirk
Heads of Ayr railway station
Ayr Beach
Burns Cottage
Rozelle House Galleries
Wallace Tower
Citadel Leisure Centre
Loudoun Hall
( Ayr - UK ) is well know as a tourist destination because of the variety of places you can enjoy while you are visiting the city of Ayr . Through a series of videos we will try to show you recommended places to visit in Ayr - UK
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Discover Ayrshire
Ayrshire has everything you need for your next break, from vast beaches to historic castles. Watch our video for inspiration about things to see and do in the area.
Finding Agates on the Beach
Enjoy finding agates on several beaches from Damon Point- Ocean Shores, Murdock Beach, North Beach and Rialto Beach on the Olympic Peninsula.
Dunure Beach March 2017
Just a quick day trip we took to Dunure!
Music is Lies by Trifonic. I do not own anything to do with this song it is not mine but I do suggest you buy it as it is amazing!!
Dunure castle, ayr, Scotland.
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Although it has been a ruin for at least three hundred years, Dunure Castle was once the main fortress of the powerful Kennedy family, the Earls of Cassilis. Today the Kennedys are much more closely associated with Culzean Castle, less than four miles down the coast, but for several centuries from the 1200s, Dunure Castle was by far the more important of the two.
The castle's origins probably date back to at least the 1200s when a stone keep was built on an easily defensible rocky outcrop overlooking the Firth of Clyde. The Kennedy family prospered, with one member marrying a daughter of King Robert III while another went on to become Bishop of St Andrews and the founder of St Salvator's College.
As the family prospered, so their castle expanded. New ranges of buildings were added at a lower level slightly inland, and a curtain wall was erected to surround the whole castle. The new buildings included a kitchen range and a chapel, a great hall and a prison, plus living accommodation for the family and their retainers.
Dunure Castle featured as a footnote in history on a number of occasions during its active life. In 1429 a meeting took place here - presumably because it was seen to be neutral territory - between James Campbell, representing King James I of Scotland and John Mor MacDonald, representing the Lord of the Isles. Violence broke out and MacDonald was killed. James I's efforts to contain the outrage of the Lords of the Isles by executing Campbell did not prevent a subsequent uprising by them.
For three days from 4 August 1563, Mary Queen of Scots stayed at Dunure Castle as the guest of Gilbert Kennedy, the 4th Earl of Cassilis. Mary made a number of progressions around her realm during her short reign, and Dunure thus joins a long list of those who would be able to display a Mary slept here plaque.
Gilbert Kennedy was not always so hospitable towards his guests. The arrival of the Reformation in Scotland in 1560 led to a huge land-grab, in which secular landowners and lairds tried hard to take control of lands and properties previously held by abbeys across Scotland. Gilbert, 4th Earl of Cassilis, managed to gain control of at least some of the lands of Glenluce Abbey in Galloway, allegedly by paying a monk to forge the necessary signatures on a charter under which abbey lands were passed to him. Gilbert then, also allegedly, had the monk killed by a paid assassin, who in turn he hung on a trumped up charge of theft.
Gilbert Kennedy's efforts to gain control of the lands of nearby Crossraguel Abbey were equally unscrupulous, but caused him more problems. The last Abbot of Crossraguel, who died in 1564, was Quintin Kennedy, Gilbert Kennedy's uncle. He was replaced by a lay commendator (or administrator) called Alan Stewart, who spent much of the next five years fending off assorted attempts by Gilbert, 4th Earl of Cassilis, to take ownership of the abbey lands.
Matters came to a head on 29 August 1569 when, according to a complaint later made to the Scottish Privy Council by Alan Stewart, Gilbert had Stewart kidnapped, taken to Dunure Castle, and roasted over an open fire in the castle kitchens until he agreed to sign over the abbey estates to Gilbert. This he apparently did after two turns on the spit.
The story then gets rather confused. A distant relative of Gilbert's, Thomas Kennedy of Bargany (who wanted the abbey lands for himself), stormed Dunure Castle and released Alan Stewart. But before Thomas Kennedy could escape he was in turn besieged in the castle keep by a larger force which had arrived under the personal command of Gilbert Kennedy.
The ensuing fight between forces occupying different parts of the castle caused considerable damage to its structure. How all this was resolved is a little unclear: but it seems that Gilbert Kennedy was eventually instructed by the Scottish Privy Council to pay Alan Stewart a pension for life in compensation for his treatment: but it also seems that Gilbert may have been allowed to retain the abbey lands signed over to him under duress by Stewart.
By the mid 1700s, Dunure Castle was already a ruin, and it then spent more than a century being used as a quarry for every building project in the area. But by the mid 1800s its potential as a romantic visitor attraction was being appreciated, and this brought a halt to the systematic destruction of what was left. After many years as a derelict and dangerous ruin, the castle has been consolidated and is now partly accessible to visitors.
Scottish Places: Ayr & Alloway, Scotland - Land of Robert Burns & Birthplace Museum
A quick DIY tour around Ayr, Alloway, Prestwick and the Ayrshire Countryside. In no particular order are: 13th Century Brig O'Doon, Tam O'Shanter pub in Ayr High st, Souter Johnnies pub in Kirkoswald, Alloway Inn in Alloway, Balbirs Indian Restaurant on the southbound A77, Elvis Presley plaque at Prestwick Airport where he landed for a few hours whilst in the armed forces, Waverley Paddle Steamer - only sea-going paddle steamer in the world still going strong, Ailsa Craig the volcanic plug in the Clyde aka Paddy's Milestone, an old boat in Ayr harbour, Wallace Tower and a statue of William Wallace in Ayr High Street, Bar Dome in Prestwicks main road, River Doon in both directions as seen from the Millennium Footbridge at the mouth of the river, Brig O'Doon Hotel., pictures of Culzean Castle and grounds (appeared as Lord Summerisle's residence in original movie Wickerman and The Queen with Helen Mirren), Rabbie Burns cottage/birthplace in Alloway, the Lang Scots Mile walk marker on Ayr seafront. Phew that just about covers it! Shame its not newport state of mind spoof of new york state of mind '-)
Historic Dean Castle and Country Park
A view of historical Dean Castle and the surrounding country park.
Lighthouse at the most northern part of the Island of Lewis, Scotland.
Breathtaking scenery from the buftt of Lewis. This is right at the north of the island at the very tip. The drop from the cliffs is extremely far and the weather can be ferocious. Hope you enjoy,