Visit North Ayrshire Place – things to do & explore

Visit North Ayrshire PlacesVisit North Ayrshire places on a day-trip, weekend away or holiday – and Walkfo becomes your personal digital tour guide to North Ayrshire things to do.

Visiting North Ayrshire Overview

North Ayrshire is one of 32 council areas in Scotland . It is located in the west central Lowlands with the Firth of Clyde to its west . It has a population of roughly 135,280 people with its largest settlements at Irvine and Kilwinning .
When you visit North Ayrshire, North Ayrshire history becomes available at the places you travel to by foot, bike, bus or car with a mobile phone & headphones.

  

North Ayrshire places overview by Walkfo


Visit to North Ayrshire stats

North Ayrshire photo With 198 tourism audio plaques & places for you to explore in North Ayrshire, Walkfo is the world’s largest heritage & history digital plaque provider in the world. Our AI continually learns & refines content about the best North Ayrshire places to visit from online information authorities like Wikipedia for current & history, and converts it into an audio experience.

When you visit North Ayrshire


You can visit North Ayrshire places and use Walkfo North Ayrshire to discover the history & things to do in North Ayrshire whilst walking with our free digital tour app. Walkfo North Ayrshire has 198 places on our North Ayrshire map with history, culture & travel facts that you explore the same way you would at a museum or art gallery with information audio headset. With Walkfo, you can travel by foot, bike or bus throughout North Ayrshire, being in the moment, without digital distraction or limits to a specific walking route – you choose where you want to go, when you want to go and Walkfo North Ayrshire will keep up.Visit North Ayrshire Places

With millions of places including tourist walks, North Ayrshire travel destinations, National Trust locations converted to audio experiences, our North Ayrshire places AI guide will help you get the best from your visit to North Ayrshire & the surrounding areas. The North Ayrshire places app for iPhone & Android delivers hidden history, interesting culture and amazing facts in interactive audio stories in response to where you walk at National Heritage sites, tourist attractions, historic locations or city streets, with no predefined walk map requirements.

“The Walkfo AI has curated content for millions of locations across the UK, with 198 audio facts unique to North Ayrshire places forming an interactive North Ayrshire map for you to explore.”

Walkfo’s Visit North Ayrshire Places Map
198 tourist, history, culture & geography spots


 

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Walkfo North Ayrshire tourism map key: places to see & visit like National Trust sites, Blue Plaques, English Heritage locations & top tourist destinations in North Ayrshire

  

Best North Ayrshire places to visit


North Ayrshire has many places to explore by foot, bike or bus. Below are a selection of the varied North Ayrshire’s destinations you can visit with additional content available at the Walkfo North Ayrshire’s information audio spots:

North Ayrshire photo Glen Rosa
Glen Rosa (Scottish Gaelic: Gleann Ruasaidh) is a glen near Goat Fell on the Isle of Arran in the Firth of Clyde, western Scotland .
North Ayrshire photo Lochranza Castle
Lochranza Castle is an L-plan fortified tower house situated on a promontory on the northern part of the Isle of Arran in Scotland . Most of the castle was built in the 16th century .
North Ayrshire photo Portencross Castle
Portencross Castle is situated on the west coast of Scotland, about 3 km from West Kilbride . The site has been fortified since the 11th Century . The present tower castle is thought to date from the mid-14th Century and later .
North Ayrshire photo Brisbane Aisle
The Brisbane Aisle (NS 220247, 659447) is a small 17th century free-standing burial vault, built for the Shaws of Kelsoland (aka Brisbane) It is situated in the grounds of the ‘Largs Old Kirk’, Largs, Ayrshire, Scotland .
North Ayrshire photo Dreghorn
Dreghorn is a village in North Ayrshire, Scotland, on the old main road from Irvine to Kilmarnock . It is sited on a ridge between two rivers and is 3.5km east of Irvine town centre . Archaeological excavations have found a significant neolithic settlement dated to around 3500 BC .
North Ayrshire photo Bourtreehill
Bourtreehill is a large housing estate built by the Irvine Development Corporation in the late 1970s . It is part of the Irvine New Town in North Ayrshire, Scotland . Along its southern border runs the Broomlands estate .
North Ayrshire photo Tanzie Well
The Tanzie Well, also known as Saint Anne’s Well, the Washing House Well or the Spoot is located beside the River Irvine . It has been suggested that ‘Tanzie’ may be a corruption of St Inan’s Well . The old Irvine Pouther House of 1801 is located nearby .
North Ayrshire photo Annick Water
The Annick Water (previously also spelled as Annack, Annoch or Annock) is the largest tributary of the River Irvine . The name may derive from the Gaelic for ‘overflowing’ and is prone to flooding .
North Ayrshire photo The Chapel Well
The Chapel Well, sometimes known as Saint Mary’s Well, is located beside the River Irvine at the end of the Chapel Lane path that links to the Kirk Vennel in Irvine, North Ayrshire .
North Ayrshire photo The Lands of Pitcon
The Lands of Pitcon, previously Potconnel now form a small estate of around 100 acres in the Parish of Dalry, North Ayrshire . The present category B listed Georgian mansion house (OS NS 229879, 650628) dates from 1787 .

Visit North Ayrshire plaques


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North Ayrshire has 7 physical plaques within tourist plaque schemes for you to explore via Walkfo North Ayrshire plaques when visiting. Plaque schemes such as National Heritage’s “Blue Plaques” provide visual geo-markers to highlight points-of-interest at the places where they happened. Where a plaque is available, Walkfo AI has done research to provide additional, deeper content when you visit North Ayrshire using the app. Experience hidden history & stories at each location as the Walkfo local tourist guide app uses trigger audio close to each North Ayrshire plaque. Explore North Ayrshire Plaques & History has a complete list of Hartlepool’s plaques & Hartlepool history plaque map.