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Scottish TownsKilmarnock
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Scottish TownsKilmarnock
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 Former
Royal Bank of Scotland Building
and Robert Burns Statue at Kilmarnock Cross Kilmarnock is the second largest town in Ayrshire
and the 15th most populated place in Scotland.
The Kilmarnock
Water passes through it
- giving rise to the name 'Bank Street'. The
first collection of work by Robert
Burns,
"Poems, chiefly
in the Scottish dialect",
was published in Kilmarnock in
1786,
and became known as the Kilmarnock volume.
Kilmarnock
is home to Kilmarnock
Academy,
one of only two state schools in the world
that have educated two Nobel Prize laureates,
Alexander Fleming for the discovery of Penicillin
and John Boyd Orr, 1st Baron Boyd-Orr for his research on Nutrition |
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 Kilmarnock
Railay Station and
Floral Clock
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 Leigh
Kirk in Kilmarnock
The current church, the third on the site, was built in 1802 |
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 Dean
Castle
Dean Castle is in Dean Castle Country Park in Kilmarnock, It was the stronghold of the Boyd Family - lords of Kilmarnock for over 400 years. The Castle takes its name from ‘The Dean’ or wooded valley, a common place name in Scotland |
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 .The
BURNS MONUMENT CENTRE
in Kay Park in Kilmarnock |
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