See and do

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

The Abbey was founded sometime between 1162 and 1188 with monks coming from Kelso in the Scottish Borders. Its ruins sit in the centre of the town.

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

The Barony A Frame is a preserved headgear in East Ayrshire

Artist Studios

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

Barrhill is a small village in South Ayrshire between Girvan and Newton Stewart in South Ayrshire.

Kirkoswald is a small but picturesque village in South Ayrshire, located 4 miles south west of Maybole.

Kilwinning is a large town in North Ayrshire, situated on the banks of the River Garnock

The formidable-looking Maybole Castle is a four-storey garret tower in the Ayrshire town of Maybole.

Loudonhill is a volcanic plug located near the River Irvine in East Ayrshire

Have a free admission atmospheric hands on tour of a Royal Observer Corps decommissioned underground nuclear bunker built during the Cold War.

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

As is common along the shore of this part of the Clyde, rich red sandstone has been used in the construction of many of the village's buildings.

Port Bannatyne is a coastal village on the Isle of Bute.