Burns Country, Ayrshire, Scotland
Robert Burns was born on 25th January 1759, in Alloway,
a suburb of Ayr on the Firth of Clyde.
You can find as much Burns memorabilia here as you need
- Burns Cottage in Alloway, where Burns lived till he was seven
years old. This white cottage was actually built by Burns' father
- Burns Museum right beside the cottage
- Burns Monument, with its Corinthian pillars on the banks
of the River Ayr
- The Auld kirk and Land O'Burns Centre
- Maucheline - where Burns once farmed at Mossgiel Farm
- Burns museum and memorial tower at Maucheline
- Bachelors' Club, a few miles west of Maucheline at Tarbolton,
where Burns founded a debating society in 1780, and is now a National Trust
museum
- Irvine, where Burns worked as a flax dresser from 1781 to
1784, has a Burns Museum
