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Monkton

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Monkton

5 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
    Macrae's Monument

    Monument in South Ayrshire, Scotland, UK

    800 m · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Shaw Monument

    Monumental tower in South Ayrshire, Scotland, UK

    1.4 km · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Council Offices, Kirk Street, Prestwick

    Building in South Ayrshire, Scotland, UK

    1.7 km · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Prestwick South Parish Church

    Church in South Ayrshire, Scotland, UK

    1.9 km · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Kingcase Parish Church

    Church in South Ayrshire, Scotland, UK

    3.4 km · 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.

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Getting to Monkton

Airports
Glasgow Prestwick (PIK), 2 km · Glasgow (GLA), 41 km · Edinburgh (EDI), 91 km
Stations
Glasgow Prestwick Airport, 500 m · Prestwick Town railway station, 1.9 km · Prestwick International Airport railway station, 1.4 km · Monkton railway station, 1.5 km · Auchincruive railway station, 3.6 km
  • Glasgow → Monkton
    44 km · quickest by road, 1h · £4.5–6
  • Ingliston, Edinburgh → Monkton
    91 km · quickest by road, 2h · £10–13
  • Belfast → Monkton
    133 km · quickest by road, 14h 29m · £70–95
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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 Monkton

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 Monkton. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inChange at Kilwinning for Ardrossan (for ferry to Arran), West Kilbride and Largs (for ferry to Great Cumbrae).
  • Go nextArdrossan has ferries to the charming island of Arran.
  • Go nextFerries to Cumbrae sail from Largs, and to Bute from Wemyss Bay.

From Wikivoyage: Prestwick, 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

    35 km
  2. 02
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    64 km
  3. 03
    Isle of JuraGB

    10 ways of moving, 19 sources

    93 km
  4. 04
    Isle of CollGB

    7 ways of moving, 16 sources

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

    9 ways of moving, 20 sources

    194 km

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

Around it

Next door to Monkton

Monkton is 44 km from Glasgow, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Prestwicktown in South Ayrshire, Scotland, UK2.4 km
  • St Quivoxhamlet in South Ayrshire, Scotland, UK3.6 km
  • Heathfieldsuburb of Ayr, South Ayrshire, Scotland, UK4 km