See and do

Set within Kilmarnock's beautiful Kay Park, the Burns Monument Centre houses local and family history collections and is available for weddings.

Annanhill Golf Course, an 18-hole course situated on the outskirts of Kilmarnock is open to residents and visitors.

Dean Castle Country Park is a fantastic free day out for all the family.

The Baird Institute holds collections of Mauchline Ware, Cumnock Pottery, mining equipment, photographs and artifacts of local and social history

The Robert Burns Birthplace Museum is aptly located in Alloway, the village in which Burns was born.

A monument commemorating the final resting place of the Russian cruising vessel, the Varyag, which ran aground off the Ayrshire coast

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

The town of Cumnock sits at the confluence of the Glaisnock Water and the Lugar Water.

The tower is all that remain of this church dedicated to St. John the Baptist

The word Dailly derives from the gaelic words for meadow and field which is fitting as Dailly is surrounded by rich farm land and woods.

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

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

Dunlop is a village and parish in East Ayrshire, 7 miles from Kilmarnock.

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

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