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Barassie

Barassie is a former village on the east shore of the Firth of Clyde in South Ayrshire, Scotland.

Barassie
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The place

Barassie is a former village on the east shore of the Firth of Clyde in South Ayrshire, Scotland. Today it serves as a suburb outside the northern edge of Troon.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Barassie

4 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.

  1. 01
    Dundonald Castle

    Dundonald Castle is situated on a hill overlooking the village of Dundonald, between Kilmarnock and Troon in South Ayrshire, Scotland.

    3.5 km · castle in South Ayrshire, Scotland, UK · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Auchans Castle

    Auchans Castle, House, House of Auchans or Old Auchans, is a mock military mansion, Category A listed, T-plan building of a late 16th-century date converted to the L-plan during the early-to-mid-17th century; its ruins stand about 1 km W of Dundonald, South Ayrshire, Scotland. Parish of Dundonald.

    2.8 km · castle in South Ayrshire, Scotland, UK · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Crosbie Castle and the Fullarton estate

    Crosbie Castle and the Fullarton estate lie near Troon in South Ayrshire. The site was the home of the Fullarton family for several centuries.

    2.5 km · castle in South Ayrshire, Scotland, UK · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Town Hall, South Beach, Troon

    Troon Town Hall is a municipal building in Ayr Street, Troon, Scotland. The structure, which serves as the meeting place of Troon Community Council, is a Category B listed building.

    2.3 km · hall in Troon, South Ayrshire, Scotland, UK · Wikipedia

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Go there

Getting to Barassie

Airports
Glasgow Prestwick (PIK), 8 km · Glasgow (GLA), 37 km · Edinburgh (EDI), 91 km
Stations
Troon railway station, 2.2 km · Barassie railway station, 300 m · Gailes railway station, 2.8 km · Troon Harbour railway station, 2.8 km
  • Ingliston, Edinburgh → Barassie
    55 km · quickest by road, 1h 11m · £6–7
  • Belfast → Barassie
    106 km · quickest by road, 14h 41m · £75–95
  • Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear → Barassie
    203 km · quickest by road, 4h 14m · £24–32
  • From anywhere
    The planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
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Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.

Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Barassie

Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Barassie. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inBy bus: Citylink 922 runs four times a day from Glasgow Buchanan Station, taking an hour and connecting with the Arran ferry.
  • Get inBy boat: some ferries to Arran sail from Troon during the interminable repairs to Ardrossan the usual mainland port.
  • Go nextLargs is a similar seaside town, with a short ferry crossing to Great Cumbrae.
  • Go nextArdrossan is only worth visiting to take the ferry to the charming Isle of Arran.

From Wikivoyage: Troon, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    31 km
  2. 02
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    58 km
  3. 03
    Isle of JuraGB

    10 ways of moving, 19 sources

    87 km
  4. 04
    Isle of CollGB

    7 ways of moving, 16 sources

    168 km
  5. 05
    The Small Isles - Eigg, Muck, Rum and CannaGB

    9 ways of moving, 20 sources

    188 km

If you know how people move in Barassie – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

Next door to Barassie

Barassie is 42 km from Glasgow, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Troontown in South Ayrshire, Scotland, UK2.5 km
  • Dundonaldvillage in South Ayrshire, Scotland, UK3.7 km
  • Loansvillage in South Ayrshire, Scotland, UK1.8 km