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Ayrshire & The Isle of Arran - Castles, Cathedrals,
Monuments,
Stately Homes & Palaces
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Since the stone age, man has been
creating majestic structures that we still marvel at
today.
Whether you are interested in ancient monuments,
battlefield sites,
re-enactments,
Roman and Norman forts and castles, Stately Homes, Country Houses, Historic
Cathedrals, Ruined Abbeys etc, this is the page that
should give you the information you need.
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Here we try to list properties in
private ownership but open to the public (even if only
occasionally) as well as those in the care of the
National Trust or English/Scottish Heritage.
We know that not all the
properties in Ayrshire & The Isle of Arran are listed. Please help us
make this guide comprehensive by giving details of
missing attractions
here.
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Baltersan Castle
Turnberry
E-mail:
info@baltersan.com
Web:
www.baltersan.com
The restoration of a 16th c. tower-house 6 miles
from Turnberry
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Brodick Castle
Isle of Arran, KA27 8HY
Tel: 01770 302202 Fax: 01770
302312
E-mail:
brodickcastle@nts.org.uk
Web:
www.nts.org.uk
Brodick Castle, its gardens and country park
extend from the shore to the utmost peak on
Arran.
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Castles and Historic
Buildings
East Ayrshire Council, Council Headquarters,
London Road, Kilmarnock, KA3 7BU
Tel: 0845 7240000 Minicom:
01563 576167
Web:
www.east-ayrshire.gov.uk
Castles and Historic Buildings located within
East Ayrshire include: Barr Loch Doon -
Caprington - Loudoun - Carnell Mauchline -
Cessnock - Newmilns Tower - Craufurdland -
Rowallan - Dean -Sorn - Kilmaurs Place
- Terringzean - Kingencleugh
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Culzean Castle & Country
Park
Maybole, South Ayrshire, KA19 8LE
Tel: 01655 884455 Fax:
01655 884503
E-mail:
culzean@nts.org.uk
Web:
www.culzeanexperience.org
The Castle, gardens, visitor centre, shops and
restaurants are open every day until 31st
October.
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Dean Castle Country Park
Dean Road, Kilmarnock, KA3 1XB
Tel: 01563 522702
Web:
www.deancastle.com
200 acre country park and castle is the
Ancestral home of the Boyd's.
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Dundonald Castle Visitor
Centre
Winehouse, Yett, Dundonald, Ayrshire, KA2 9HD
Tel: 01563 851489
E-mail:
info@dundonaldcastle.org.uk
Web:
www.dundonaldcastle.org.uk
The Castle and the Visitors’ Centre from 10am to
5pm from the 1st April through to 31st October.
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Kelburn Castle
Fairlie, Ayrshire, KA29 0BE
Tel: 01475 568204 Fax:
01475 568328
E-mail:
isabelglasgow@aol.com
Web:
www.kelburncastle.com
Home of the Earls of Glasgow.
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Law Castle
West Kilbride, Ayrshire, Scotland
Tel: 07977 281850 / 07977 281866
E-mail:
info@ lawcastle.com
Web:
www.lawcastle.com
Law Castle was constructed as a wedding gift for
Princess Mary in the fifteenth century.
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Lochranza Castle
Lochranza, Brodick, Isle of Arran, KA27 8HL
Tel: 0131 668 8800
A tower house, in all probability a 16th-century
reconstruction of an earlier building.
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Maybole Castle
Maybole, Isle of Arran
Tel: 01292 264344
E-mail:
john@ntsayrshire.org.uk
Web:
www.ntsayrshire.org.uk
The oldest inhabited house in Maybole having
been built about the middle of the sixteenth
century (believed to be around 1560).
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Souter Johnnie's Cottage
Main Road, Kirkoswald, South Ayrshire, KA19 8HY
Tel: 01655 760603
E-mail:
information@nts.org.uk
Web:
www.nts.org.uk
Burns memorabilia and workshop displaying the
tools of a village souter.
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Holy Island
Lamlash P.O. Lamlash, Isle of Arran, KA27 8GB,
Scotland
Tel: 01770 601100 Fax:
01770 601101
E-mail:
reception@holyisland.org
Web:
www.holyisland.org
Holy Island has an ancient spiritual heritage
stretching back to the 6th century and is the
current home to a closed Buddhist retreat.
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Cathedral of The Isles and
Collegiate Church of the Holy Spirit
College Street, Millport, Island of Cumbrae
Tel: 01475 530353 Fax:
01475 530 204
E-mail:
tccumbrae@argyll.anglican.org
Web:
www.argyll.anglican.org
The Cathedral is on the edge of the town of
Millport, the main town on the island. The
Island of Cumbrae, is located in the Firth
of Clyde, just off the Ayrshire coast, and is
easily reached by a ten minute ferry crossing
from Largs.
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Brodick Castle
Isle of Arran, KA27 8HY
Tel: 01770 302202 Fax: 01770
302312
E-mail:
brodickcastle@nts.org.uk
Web:
www.nts.org.uk
Brodick Castle, its gardens and country park
extend from the shore to the utmost peak on
Arran.
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Bachelors' Club
Sandgate Street, Tarbolton, South Ayrshire, KA5
5RB
Tel: 01292 541940
E-mail:
information@nts.org.uk
Web:
www.nts.org.uk
A 17th-century thatched house used by Scotland’s
most famous poet, Robert Burns.
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