Crosshouse
Crosshouse is a village in East Ayrshire about 3 kilometres west of Kilmarnock. It grew around the cross-roads of the main Kilmarnock to Irvine road, once classified as the A71 but now reduced in status to the B7081, with a secondary road running from Kilmaurs south to Gatehead and beyond towards Prestwick.Photo: Ian Rainey, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Crosshouse Parish Church and Rugby Park.
Rugby Park
Stadium
Photo: Martin Le Roy, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Rugby Park, also known as The BBSP Stadium Rugby Park for sponsorship reasons, is a football stadium which is the home of Scottish Premiership club Kilmarnock F.C. and is situated in the Scottish town of Kilmarnock. Rugby Park is situated 2 miles east of Crosshouse.
Caprington Castle
Castle
Photo: wfmillar, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Caprington Castle is a 15th century keep, incorporated in a castellated mansion, about 2 miles south west of Kilmarnock, East Ayrshire, Scotland, south of the River Irvine. The castle is still occupied. Caprington Castle is situated 1½ miles southeast of Crosshouse.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Knockentiber and Kilmaurs.
Knockentiber
Village
Photo: Rosser1954, Public domain.
Knockentiber is a village in East Ayrshire, Parish of Kilmaurs, Scotland. Knockentiber is two miles west-northwest of Kilmarnock and 1⁄2 mile northeast of Crosshouse.
Kilmaurs
Village
Photo: Rosser1954, Public domain.
Kilmaurs is a village in East Ayrshire, Scotland which lies just outside of the largest settlement in East Ayrshire, Kilmarnock. It lies on the Carmel Water, 21 miles southwest of Glasgow. Kilmaurs is situated 2 miles northeast of Crosshouse.
Kilmarnock
Photo: AlasdairW, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Kilmarnock is a town in Ayrshire in southwest Scotland, with a population of 46,970 in 2020. It's industrial, though many of its historic industries have gone, such as BMK Carpets, Massey Ferguson Tractors and the Johnnie Walker whisky blending plant.
Crosshouse
- Type: Village with 2,850 residents
- Description: village in East Ayrshire, Scotland, UK
- Category: locality
- Location: East Ayrshire, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
55.6122° or 55° 36′ 44″ northLongitude
-4.55272° or 4° 33′ 10″ westPopulation
2,850Elevation
108 feet (33 metres)Open location code
9C7QJC6W+VWOpenStreetMap ID
node 413678266OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
2651870Wikidata ID
Q996516
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Welsh—“Crosshouse” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Crosshouse”
- Belarusian: “Кросгаўс”
- Cebuano: “Crosshouse”
- Chinese: “克罗斯豪斯”
- Dutch: “Crosshouse”
- French: “Crosshouse”
- German: “Crosshouse”
- Hebrew: “קרוסהאוס”
- Irish: “Crosshouse”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Crosshouse”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Crosshouse”
- Norwegian: “Crosshouse”
- Polish: “Crosshouse”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Crosshouse”
- Spanish: “Crosshouse”
- Swedish: “Crosshouse”
- Welsh: “Crosshouse”
- “Crosshouse”
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