Ayrshire

Ayrshire is a region in the of Scotland. It's divided administratively into South, East and North Ayrshire; but for visitors the practical divisions are the coast, the islands, and the inland areas.
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Essential Destinations

Top destinations include Ayr and Isle of Arran.

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is a town in Ayrshire on the coast of Scotland, with a population of 46,260 in 2020. Its chief attraction for visitors is the nearby village of Alloway, birthplace of Robert Burns.

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The is part of Ayrshire in southwest Scotland. It lies in the Firth of Clyde, the broad reach of sea southwest of Glasgow and enclosed by the Ayrshire coast to the east and the Kintyre peninsula to the west.

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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.

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is a town in Ayrshire on the Clyde coast, with a population of 34,130 in 2020. It's post-industrial and is best-known as one of the postwar "New Towns" built across lowland Scotland.

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is an uninhabited island in the Firth of Clyde, 9 miles off the coast of Ayrshire. It measures about 3⁄4 of a mile north-south by ½ a mile east-west, and rises abruptly to 1120 ft.

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is a seaside resort on the Clyde coast of Ayrshire, with a population of 10,900 in 2022. It’s where Viking power in Scotland was broken, at the Battle of in 1263, and the Vikingar Exhibition is the town’s main attraction.

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is a port in Ayrshire on the Clyde coast of Scotland. It's part of the "Three Towns" conurbation of Greater , which also includes Saltcoats and Stevenston.

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is a seaside town in Ayrshire in southwest Scotland, with a population of 14,950 in 2020. It's about 40 miles from Glasgow so it's one of the closest beach resorts to the city, and is crowded on fine summer weekends.

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is a town in Ayrshire on the Clyde coast of Scotland, with a population of 14,880 in 2020. It became a beach and golf resort in Victorian times, but is best known for its airport.

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is a town near the Ayrshire coast of Scotland, some 21 miles southwest of Glasgow. It's run-down and post-industrial, with a population in 2020 of 16,100.

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is a seaside town in Ayrshire on the west coast of Scotland, with a population of 6300 in 2022. It has a long, sandy beach and expanded as a resort when the railway arrived in Victorian times.

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is the largest of a cluster of small towns in Ayrshire, at the head of the Garnock Valley 20 miles southwest of .

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is a town in Ayrshire on the Clyde coast, with a population of 4860 in 2022. Named for St Brigit of Kildare, it was traditionally a weaving, potato-growing and sheep-farming town.

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Great Cumbrae is an island in the Firth of Clyde off the coast of Ayrshire, with as its only settlement, and a population of 1376 in 2011. The island is about 3 miles long by 1½ miles wide, roughly tooth-shaped, with a broad bay indenting its south coast.

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is a small island just east of the in the Firth of Clyde, Scotland. It's two miles long by half-a-mile mile wide, with a rocky ridge down its spine.

Ayrshire

Latitude of center
55.5° or 55° 30′ north
Longitude of center
-4.5° or 4° 30′ west
Population
367,000
Open­Street­Map ID
node 302324192
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­county
Wiki­data ID
Q793283
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In Other Languages

From Armenian to Welsh—“Ayrshire” goes by many names.
  • Armenian: “Այրշիր”
  • Asturian: “Ayrshire”
  • Azerbaijani: “Ayrşir”
  • Basque: “Ayrshire”
  • Belarusian: “Айршыр”
  • Belarusian: “Эршыр”
  • Catalan: “Ayrshire”
  • Cebuano: “Ayrshire”
  • Chinese: “埃尔郡”
  • Chinese: “埃爾郡”
  • Chinese: “艾尔郡”
  • Chinese: “艾爾郡”
  • Chinese: “艾郡”
  • Czech: “Ayrshire”
  • Dutch: “Ayrshire”
  • French: “Ayrshire”
  • German: “Ayrshire”
  • Greek: “Έρσαϊρ”
  • Hebrew: “איירשייר”
  • Hindi: “आयरशायर”
  • Ido: “Ayrshire”
  • Indonesian: “Ayrshire”
  • Irish: “Inbhear Áir”
  • Irish: “Siorrachd Àir”
  • Irish: “Siorrachd Inbhir Àir”
  • Italian: “Ayrshire”
  • Japanese: “アイルシャー”
  • Japanese: “エアシャー”
  • Japanese: “エアシャー地方”
  • Japanese: “エアシャイア”
  • Korean: “에어셔주”
  • Kurdish: “Ayrshire”
  • Latin: “Aerensis”
  • Latin: “Ayrshire”
  • Latvian: “Ēršīra”
  • Macedonian: “Ершир”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Ayrshire”
  • Norwegian: “Ayrshire”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Æġersċīr”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Ægrscīr”
  • Persian: “ایرشایر”
  • Polish: “Ayrshire”
  • Romanian: “Ayrshire”
  • Russian: “Айр”
  • Russian: “Айршир”
  • Russian: “Эршир”
  • Scots: “Ayrshire”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Siorrachd Àir”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Siorrachd Inbhir Àir”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Ayrshire”
  • Slovenian: “Ayrshire”
  • Spanish: “Ayrshire”
  • Swedish: “Ayrshire”
  • Turkish: “Ayrshire”
  • Ukrainian: “Ершир”
  • Urdu: “آئرشائر”
  • Venetian: “Ayrshire”
  • Welsh: “Swydd Ayr”

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