See and do

The McKechnie Institute opened in 1889, thanks to the generosity of local business man Thomas McKechnie

The town of Ardrossan sits on the North Ayrshire coast on the east shore of the Firth of Clyde.

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

Rumoured home of the notorious 15th-century cannibal Sawney Bean and his incestuous clan

Auchinleck is a small village in East Ayrshire. The name in Gaelic means "field of flat stones”

Carleton Castle is a 15th-century five-storey tower, and a Category B-Listed building.

Largs' most famous monument is The Pencil, situated at the south end of the Prom, near to Largs Marina.

These neolithic tombs were discovered by James Wilson of Haylie in 1772, and can be found in Largs' Douglas Park

Mauchline is a small town, 10 miles east of Ayr.

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

This early Christian monastery was abandoned during Viking raids around AD 790, and lies about 2 miles from modern Kingarth.

Fairlie is a small village in North Ayrshire, around 3 miles from Largs

Straiton is a small village dating back to the 18th century, located 10km south east of Maybole on the Water of Girvan.

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

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