East Ayrshire

East Ayrshire Siorrachd Inbhir Àir an Ear
Administrative headquarters	Kilmarnock
surface	1,262 km² (14.)
Residents	122,720 (16.)
ISO 3166-2	GB-EAY
ONS code	00QK
Website	www.east-ayrshire.gov.uk

East Ayrshire ( Gaelic Siorrachd Inbhir Àir an Ear ) is one of 32  Council Areas in Scotland . Together with South Ayrshire and North Ayrshire (excluding the Isle of Arran ) it is part of the traditional county of Ayrshire .

geography

East Ayrshire is a fertile and flourishing stretch of land with lush pastureland and numerous fields that is part of the Scottish Lowlands. Numerous smaller forest areas and hedges (especially gorse ) loosen up the hilly landscape optically. In the south, on the border with Dumfries and Galloway , the landscape gradually takes on a moor-like character. East Ayrshire is one of the few counties in Scotland with no direct access to the sea.

climate

Like the weather in western Scotland as a whole, the Atlantic Gulf Stream determines the weather in East Ayrshire. Summers are moderately warm with temperatures that rarely rise well above 20 ° C. The winters, on the other hand, are mild with only a few and then mostly short periods of frost. Due to the constant Atlantic winds, the weather is altogether changeable.

places

Auchinleck Catrine Craigmalloch Crosshouse Cumnock Dalmellington Dalrymple Darvel Drongan

Dunlop Galston Greenholm Hurlford Kilmarnock Mauchline Moscow Muirkirk Netherthird

New Cumnock Newmilns Ochiltree Patna Riccarton Sorn Stair Stewarton Trabboch

Attractions

Palaces and castles

• Barr Castle , Galston
• Caprington Castle , near Kilmarnock
• Carnell Castle , at Craigie
• Cessnock Castle , Galston
• Craufurdland Castle , near Kilmarnock
• Dean Castle , Kilmarnock
• Kilmaurs Place , Kilmaurs
• Kingencleugh Castle , at Mauchline
• Loch Doon Castle
• Loudoun Castle , near Galston
• Mauchline Castle , Mauchline
• Newmilns Tower , Newmilns
• Rowallan Castle , at Kilmaurs
• Sorn Castle , Sorn
• Terringzean Castle , at Cumnock

Museums and theaters

• The Baird Institute , Cumnock
• Burns House Museum , Mauchline
• Dean Castle and Country Park , Kilmarnock
• The Dick Institute , Kilmarnock
• Doon Valley Museum , Dalmellington
• Grand Hall , Kilmarnock
• Kilmaurs Museum , Kilmaurs
• National Burns Memorial , Mauchline
• Palace Theater , Kilmarnock

Further

• Keir Hardie Memorial , Cumnock
• Kay Park , Kilmarnock
• Dalmellington Mote , Dalmellington
• Loudoun Hill , Irvine Valley
• see also: List of Category A structures in East Ayrshire

Personalities

• Johnnie Walker sold his "Walker's Kilmarnock Whiskey" in Kilmarnock . The whiskey became world famous under the name "Johnnie Walker's". A statue in Kilmarnock's city center commemorates him.
• Andrew Fisher spent his early years as a miner in his native Crosshouse and later became Prime Minister of Australia .
• James Keir Hardie , founder of the Labor Party , lived in Cumnock for many years . A bust in front of the Cumnock Town Hall commemorates him.
• Alexander Fleming , the discoverer of penicillin and later Nobel Prize winner , was born on a farm near Darvel and completed his schooling here and at Kilmarnock Academy. A bust in Hastings Square in Darvel commemorates him.
• Bill Shankly , a well-known British football coach, was born in Glenbuck .
• John Boyd Orr was a Scottish doctor and biologist who was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1949. He was born in Kilmaurs .

politics

The East Ayrshire Council has 32 seats distributed among the parties as follows:

Political party	Seats
Scottish National Party	14th
Scottish Labor	9
Scottish Conservatives	6th
Independently	2
The Rubbish Party	1

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Mid-2012 Population ( Memento from November 29, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 1.2 MB)
2. ^ Information from the East Ayrshire Council

Web links

Commons : East Ayrshire  - Collection of images, videos and audio files