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
Places to see in ( Girvan - UK )
Places to see in ( Girvan - UK )
Girvan is a burgh in Carrick, South Ayrshire, Scotland. Girvan is stituated on the east coast of the Firth of Clyde, with a population of about 6,700. It lies 21 miles (34 km) south of Ayr, and 29 miles (47 km) north of Stranraer, the main ferry port from Scotland to Northern Ireland.
Girvan was originally a fishing port. In 1668, it became a municipal burgh incorporated by charter. The opening of the railways, initially with the Maybole and Girvan Railway at the end of the 1850s, encouraged the development of Girvan as a seaside resort with beaches and cliffs. Holidaying here from 1855 to 1941 were Robert and Elizabeth Gray and their children; particularly Alice and Edith Gray. The family, led principally by Elizabeth and Alice, created scientifically organised collections of fossils for several museums including the Natural History Museum.
The town is now served by Girvan railway station. Just north of the town is a William Grant & Sons distillery which opened in 1964. There is a Nestlé factory that manufactures chocolate that is shipped down to York and used in Kit-Kat and Yorkie bars.
The McKechnie Institute was endowed by a local businessman and opened in 1889. The Girvan Folk Music Festival takes place on the first weekend of May each year. Girvan also has a folk music club. The Lowland Gathering takes place on the first Sunday of June each year in the Victory Park in the centre of the town. The annual Festival of Light takes place in October with a six-week lantern project resulting in the river of light lantern procession and shorefront performance. The autumn lantern project is a celebration of the lanternmakers and the people of Carrick.
Culzean Castle is about 8 miles (13 km) north of the town, and the volcanic island of Ailsa Craig is visible about 10 miles (16 km) offshore. Turnberry golf course and hotel are located 5 miles (8 km) north of Girvan. The coastline south of Girvan is famous for its geology, and also for Sawney Bean's Cave, where the legendary murderer and cannibal Sawney Bean supposedly lived until his arrest and execution in Edinburgh.
Most of the streets in the south east of Girvan are named after trees, examples are Maple Drive, Elder Avenue, Pine Quadrant, etc. Some flats are being refurbished due to damp rooms, poor insulation and mouldy windows (Which are still wooden). Girvan has a Roman Catholic church, Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary, built around 1863. The Church is in Harbour Lane, situated between Louisa Drive and Henrietta Street, close to the junction with Ailsa Street West.
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Top 10 Destinations in Scotland according to DK
Top 10 Destinations in Scotland according to DK
10. The Cairngorms
Cairngorms National Park is a mountainous national park in Scotland's Highlands region. Receiving its National Park status in September 2003, the Cairngorms National Park is Britain's largest at 3800 km2 and offers breathtaking beauty filled with a magnificent array of wildlife. In 2011, the area was selected by the National Geographic Magazine as one of the top 20 places in the world to visit.
9. Culzean Castle
Culzean Castle is a castle near Maybole, Carrick, on the Ayrshire coast of Scotland. It is the former home of the Marquess of Ailsa, the chief of Clan Kennedy, but is now owned by the National Trust for Scotland. Since 1987, an illustration of the castle has featured on the reverse side of five pound notes issued by the Royal Bank of Scotland.
8. Glencoe
Glencoe is a famous valley in the Scottish Highlands and also the name of the village adjacent to the glen on the western side. It is considered one of the most spectacular and beautiful places in Scotland. It is a part of the designated National Scenic Area of Ben Nevis and Glen Coe. Loch Leven, in the adjacent area, is a salt water loch connected to Loch Linhe, a sea loch.
7. Loch Ness and the Great Glen
Loch Ness is Scotland's (if not the world's) most famous lake. It runs for 23 miles along the natural geological cleft that stretches from Fort William in the west of the Scottish Highlands, to Inverness in the north. About a mile wide at most places it is the purported home of the Loch Ness monster, a possibly mythical creature, which dwells in the Loch and is occasionally spotted by locals and passers-by.
6. Isle of Skye
Isle of Skye represents the largest and most northerly of the Inner Hebrides located off the west coast of Scotland. The capital and largest town on the island is the picturesque port of Portree. The island can be seen as a series of peninsulas that radiate from the mountainous centre of the Cuillin hills. Skye's popularity with tourists is largely due to its remarkable landscape and easy accessibility from the mainland.
5. Glasgow Science Centre
Glasgow Science Centre is a visitor attraction located on the south bank of the River Clyde in Glasgow, Scotland.It is one of Britain's most Popular Places to visit and Europe's Best Science Centre. It is a purpose-built science centre composed of three principal buildings which are the Science Mall, an IMAX cinema and the Glasgow Tower.
4. Burrell Collection and Pollok Park
The Burrell Collection is an art collection in the city of Glasgow. It is situated in Pollok Country Park on the south side of the city. The Burrell contains an important collection of medieval art including stained glass and tapestries, oak furniture, medieval weapons and armour, Islamic art, artefacts from ancient Egypt and China and Impressionist works by Degas and Cézanne.
3. Royal Museum and Museum of Scotland
The galleries in the newer building present Scottish history in an essentially chronological arrangement, beginning at the lowest level with prehistory to the early medieval period, with later periods on the higher levels. The Victorian building covering natural history, world cultures, European art and design, and science & technology.
2. National Gallery of Scotland
The Scottish National Gallery is the national art gallery of Scotland. It is located on The Mound in central Edinburgh, in a neoclassical building designed by William Henry Playfair, and first opened to the public in 1859. The gallery houses the Scottish national collection of fine art, including Scottish and international art from the beginning of the Renaissance up to the start of the 20th century.
1. Edinburgh Castle
Edinburgh Castle is a historic fortress which dominates the skyline of the city of Edinburgh, Scotland from its position on the Castle Rock. Archaeologists have established human occupation of the rock since at least the Iron Age, although the nature of the early settlement is unclear. It has been besieged, both successfully and unsuccessfully, on several occasions.
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Crossraguel Abbey, Maybole , Scotland. Where the last Benedict Monk to lived in Scotland, Part:1
The Abbey of Saint Mary of Crossraguel is a ruin of a former abbey near the town of Maybole, South Ayrshire, Scotland
The origin of the abbey's name refers to the ancient Cross of Riaghail (Latin form St Regulus) that stood on the spot.
Crossraguel was a Cluniac abbey and the monks - members of a branch of the Benedictines - were known as the Black monks after the colour of their clothes.
Founded in 1244 by Donnchadh, Earl of Carrick, following an earlier donation of 1225, to the monks of Paisley Abbey for that purpose. They reputedly built nothing more than a small chapel.
History:
Crossraguel Abbey was founded in 1244 by Duncan, 1st Earl of Carrick. The earl sought assistance from the abbot and monks of Paisley Abbey and provided them with land and funds. However, the Paisley superiors built only a small chapel for Crossraguel and kept the remainder for themselves. Upset at this, the earl took the case to law, seeking assistance from the Bishop of Glasgow, who ruled on the earl's behalf. He required not only that Paisley build the monastery at Crossraguel, but also that some of the monks from Paisley should be transferred there. These monks were given the authority to choose their own abbot. The abbot of Paisley, it was decreed, was not to interfere with Crossraguel's affairs, though he was allowed a yearly visit. All of Paisley's possessions in Carrick were to be handed over to Crossraguel, a ruling which the abbot of Paisley appealed to the pope in 1265, but to no avail.
Crossraguel was sacked in 1307 by the army of Edward I. It was rebuilt on a larger scale and remained a monastery until 1560, when the Reformation ended monastic institutions in Scotland. However, the few remaining monks were allowed to live out their time there until the last monk died in 1601. Some of the stone has been removed for local construction, but the Abbey ruins remain some of the most complete of any medieval religious house to survive in Scotland. Like Paisley Abbey, Crossraguel was of the Order of Cluny whose mission was to encourage pilgrimage. It is no accident then that Crossraguel is half-way between Paisley and Whithorn on the Ayrshire pilgrims' trail to the shrine of St Ninian in The Machars of Galloway. The site is looked after by Historic Scotland as a scheduled monument and is open to the public with an entrance charge.
The Kennedy family, Earls of Cassilis famously obtained the lands of Crossraguel Abbey through the torturing by Gilbert Kennedy, 4th Earl of Cassilis of Allan Stewart, the commendator at his castle of Dunure.
in Autumn, 1506, Montjoie (Gilbert Chauveau), French King of Arms, visited Crossraguel probably as part of his diplomatic missions regarding Scottish military support for King Hans (John) of Denmark. Montjoie had already spent time at the Court of King Henry VII of England before moving to Scotland and from there, visited Denmark. The record of him visiting Crossraguel is found in the Treasurer's Accounts of James IV, King of Scots - ‘Item, to Johne Beg, messingeir, to pas to Corsragwell and other places with writingis to warne of Montjoyis cummyng.
Crossraguel Abbey is one of the finest and most compleate medieval monasteries in Scotland. Closely link to Robert the Bruce, it survived the War of Independence of the 1300s (Wars of Independence is between Scotland and England before become United Kingdom in 1707) and prospered in the centuries that followed, Much of the present fabric was bulit in the 1400s, including the finely decorated chapter house and sacristy. The Kennedy family, who gained control of the abbey in the 1500s, added two of its most distinctive buildings: the fashionable tower house and the imposing gatehouse..
When the last monk had died round 1617 and the life of the abbey as a religious establishment was at an end, long after its religious role had ceased, The abbey was taken into state care in 1913.
Maidens Harbour - Ayrshire - Scotland
A quiet pleasant wee harbour on the Ayrshire coast showing Ailsa Craig in the distance.
Historic Dean Castle and Country Park
A view of historical Dean Castle and the surrounding country park.
Crossraguel Abbey part2
Hi everyone thank you very much for reading here is the history of the Crossraguel Abbey..
The Abbey of Saint Mary of Crossraguel is a ruin of a former abbey near the town of Maybole, South Ayrshire, Scotland.
The origin of the abbey's name refers to the ancient Cross of Riaghail (Latin form St Regulus) that stood on the spot.
Crossraguel was a Cluniac abbey and the monks - members of a branch of the Benedictines - were known as the Black monks after the colour of their clothes.
Founded in 1244 by Donnchadh, Earl of Carrick, following an earlier donation of 1225, to the monks of Paisley Abbey for that purpose. They reputedly built nothing more than a small chapel.
History:
Crossraguel Abbey was founded in 1244 by Duncan, 1st Earl of Carrick. The earl sought assistance from the abbot and monks of Paisley Abbey and provided them with land and funds. However, the Paisley superiors built only a small chapel for Crossraguel and kept the remainder for themselves. Upset at this, the earl took the case to law, seeking assistance from the Bishop of Glasgow, who ruled on the earl's behalf. He required not only that Paisley build the monastery at Crossraguel, but also that some of the monks from Paisley should be transferred there. These monks were given the authority to choose their own abbot. The abbot of Paisley, it was decreed, was not to interfere with Crossraguel's affairs, though he was allowed a yearly visit. All of Paisley's possessions in Carrick were to be handed over to Crossraguel, a ruling which the abbot of Paisley appealed to the pope in 1265, but to no avail.
Crossraguel was sacked in 1307 by the army of Edward I. It was rebuilt on a larger scale and remained a monastery until 1560, when the Reformation ended monastic institutions in Scotland. However, the few remaining monks were allowed to live out their time there until the last monk died in 1601. Some of the stone has been removed for local construction, but the Abbey ruins remain some of the most complete of any medieval religious house to survive in Scotland. Like Paisley Abbey, Crossraguel was of the Order of Cluny whose mission was to encourage pilgrimage. It is no accident then that Crossraguel is half-way between Paisley and Whithorn on the Ayrshire pilgrims' trail to the shrine of St Ninian in The Machars of Galloway. The site is looked after by Historic Scotland as a scheduled monument and is open to the public with an entrance charge.
The Kennedy family, Earls of Cassilis famously obtained the lands of Crossraguel Abbey through the torturing by Gilbert Kennedy, 4th Earl of Cassilis of Allan Stewart, the commendator at his castle of Dunure.
in Autumn, 1506, Montjoie (Gilbert Chauveau), French King of Arms, visited Crossraguel probably as part of his diplomatic missions regarding Scottish military support for King Hans (John) of Denmark. Montjoie had already spent time at the Court of King Henry VII of England before moving to Scotland and from there, visited Denmark. The record of him visiting Crossraguel is found in the Treasurer's Accounts of James IV, King of Scots - ‘Item, to Johne Beg, messingeir, to pas to Corsragwell and other places with writingis to warne of Montjoyis cummyng.
Crossraguel Abbey is one of the finest and most compleate medieval monasteries in Scotland. Closely link to Robert the Bruce, it survived the War of Independence of the 1300s (Wars of Independence is between Scotland and England before become United Kingdom in 1707) and prospered in the centuries that followed, Much of the present fabric was bulit in the 1400s, including the finely decorated chapter house and sacristy. The Kennedy family, who gained control of the abbey in the 1500s, added two of its most distinctive buildings: the fashionable tower house and the imposing gatehouse..
When the last monk had died round 1617 and the life of the abbey as a religious establishment was at an end, long after its religious role had ceased, The abbey was taken into state care in 1913.
CASTLES AND CAMPING AT AYR..( MAY BANK HOLIDAY)
A NICE WEEKEND BREAK ON THE WEST COAST OF SCOTLAND.. CULZEAN CAMPSITE IS A LOVELY SITE.. VERY GOOD TOILET BLOCK AND SHOWERS.. CULZEAN CASTLE IS JUST BEHIND IT.. A NATIONAL TRUST PROPERTY, OFFERING SEA WALKS, DRAMATIC CLIFFS, WOODS AND WILDLIFE, OVERALL A GREAT DAY OUT.. AND THE KELPIES ARE STUNNING. WORTH A VISIT, £3 CARPARK, TOURS ARE AVAILABLE, BUT NOT SURE WHAT ELSE THEY WOULD SHOW YOU.. WE SETTLED FOR A WANDER..
STILL NOT RECOVERED FULLY, SO TAKING THINGS EASY. ANOTHER DIARY ENTRY FOR THE MEMORIES.. STILL GOT MY TIMER SET FOR MR OR MRS THUMBS DOWN...