Editing Maybole (section)

== Notable landmarks ==
[[File:Maybole Town Hall - geograph.org.uk - 1212766.jpg|thumb|left|upright|[[Maybole Town Hall]]]]
[[File:Maybole Parish Church - geograph.org.uk - 1470530.jpg|thumb|upright|The disused Maybole Parish Church]]
* The ancestral seat of the Marquesses of Ailsa is [[Culzean Castle]], now run by [[National Trust for Scotland|The National Trust for Scotland]] and located {{convert|4|mi|km|0|abbr=off}} west from Maybole. This dates from 1777; it stands on a basaltic cliff, beneath which are the Coves of Culzean, once the retreat of outlaws and a resort of the fairies.
* [[Maybole Town Hall]] incorporates a tower which dates back to the 16th century.<ref>{{Historic Environment Scotland|num= LB37708|desc=Town Hall, High Street, Maybole|access-date=6 July 2022}}</ref>
* Cassillis Castle, near Maybole, is a category A 14th century castle with 17th century and 19th century baronial extensions.
* A primary rail service is at [[Maybole railway station]]. Set up in 1860.
* {{convert|2|mi|km|0|abbr=off}} to the south-west are the ruins of [[Crossraguel]] (from ''Crois Riaghail'' meaning 'Cross of St Regulus' ) Abbey, founded about 1240.
* ''Our Lady and St Cuthbert Catholic Church'' in Maybole was opened in 1878 and it was largely funded by Catholic convert [[Margaret Radclyffe Livingstone Eyre|Margaret Radclyffe Livingstone Eyre (born Kennedy)]].<ref>{{Cite ODNB|title=Eyre, Margaret Radclyffe-Livingstone- [née Lady Margaret Kennedy], styled countess of Newburgh (1800–1889), philanthropist|url=https://www.oxforddnb.com/view/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-45582|access-date=2020-12-13|date=2004 |language=en|doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/45582|isbn=978-0-19-861412-8 |last1=Mitchell |first1=Rosemary }}</ref> A Scottish Episcopal congregation was established in 1847 to serve the English and Irish weavers in the area, and the present St. Oswald's Church was completed in 1883.
* In the early 20th century, Maybole added a Baptist church. This was admitted to the Baptist Union in 1901 and appointed its first full minister in 1919, a year after the Great War finished.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Baptist Church of Maybole History |url=https://www.maybole.org/community/churches/BaptistChurch/history.htm |website=maybole.org}}</ref>
* Kirkoswald, where [[Robert Burns]] spent his seventeenth year, learning land-surveying, lies a little farther west. In the parish churchyard lie the real people who inspired two of Burns's fictitious characters Douglas Graham ([[Tam o' Shanter (Burns poem)|Tam o' Shanter]]) and [[John Davidson (poet)|John Davidson]].
* Farther south are the ruins of [[Turnberry Castle]], where [[Robert the Bruce]] is said to have been born. A few miles to the north of Culzean are the ruins of [[Dunure Castle]], an ancient stronghold of the Kennedys.

[[File:Maybolehousing.jpg|thumb|Housing on the site of the old St Cuthbert's shoe factory]]
[[File:Maybolecross.jpg|right|thumb|The head of the old Maybole Cross in the gardens of Maybole Castle. The cross bears the coats of arms of the Kennedy family of Cassillis and has a rare Moon dial on one face.]]