Editing Beith (section)

==Leisure and sport==
===Football===
The local football club, [[Beith Juniors F.C.|Beith Juniors]], formed in 1938 to succeed [[Beith F.C.|Beith]] who had played in the [[Scottish Football League]] in the 1920s.  The team participate in the {{Scottish football updater|BeithJun}} and play their home games at Bellsdale Park, which is famous for its ''slope''. The club's most famous former player is [[Steve Clarke]], who went on to play for [[St Mirren F.C.|St Mirren]] and [[Chelsea F.C.|Chelsea]], and has been the manager of [[West Bromwich Albion F.C.|West Bromwich Albion]], [[Reading F.C.|Reading]] and [[Kilmarnock F.C.|Kilmarnock]]. He is the current manager of the Scotland national team.

===Beith Astro===
[[File:Beith Astro.jpg|thumb|Beith Astro]]
[http://beithastro.co.uk/ Beith Astro] was generated through the enabling efforts of the [http://www.beithtrust.org/ Beith Trust]. As a result of campaigning and lobbying throughout 2010, North Ayrshire Council committed £300,000 towards the refurbishment of the synthetic pitch in advance of the facilities coming under community management in April 2012. Beith Trust also enabled community ownership of two grass pitches, and changing pavilions.

[https://web.archive.org/web/20131014051549/http://www.beithastro.co.uk/about.html Beith Astro] is an eleven-a-side, full-size synthetic astro pitch now used by not only the trust and its affiliated community programmes and groups but also [https://web.archive.org/web/20131015033514/http://www.beithjuniors.co.uk/home.html Beith Juniors Football Club] and all twelve [https://web.archive.org/web/20131015033512/http://www.beithjuniors.co.uk/indexx.html Beith Community Football Clubs].

===Rugby===
Beith's only rugby football club, ''Old Spierians'' was amalgamated, along with ''Dalry High School FP'' into [[Garnock RFC]] in 1972 when ''Spier's School'', ''Dalry High'', ''Kilbirnie Central'' and ''Beith Academy'' schools were closed to form ''Garnock Academy''. The ''Old Spierians'' club had been founded in the early years of the 20th century and joined the [[Scottish Rugby Union]] in 1911. ''Garnock'' play their home games at ''Lochshore'' on the banks of [[Kilbirnie]] Loch and currently (2010) participate in the ''Scottish Hydro Premier League 3''.

===Golf===
Beith also has its own 18-hole, 68-par golf course, in the Bigholm area just east of the town, a short walking distance from [[Saint Inan]]'s chair at Lochland's Hill.

===Cinema===
The town's ''George'' cinema was put up for sale in the autumn of 1982, but a surprisingly good run of E.T. over that Christmas period helped keep it open until the following summer.  It finally closed on 25 June 1983 for conversion to a snooker club, although the building has since been demolished.<ref name=The_George>{{Cite web|url=http://www.scottishcinemas.org.uk/scotland/george/|title=Associated GP Cinemas|website=www.scottishcinemas.org.uk}}</ref>