Coylton
Coylton is a village and civil parish in South Ayrshire, Scotland.
It is five miles east of Ayr and 2+1⁄2 miles west of Drongan, on the A70. Sundrum Castle Holiday Park is to the west of the village, in the grounds of Sundrum Castle, which partly dates to the 13th century. A rocking stone stands atop the Craigs of Kyle near Coylton. It weighs about 30 tons and rests upon two stones. A large standing stone known as Wallace's Stone stands nearby. The village is also home to a parish church of the Gothic style, built in 1832.
Getting around Coylton the local way
- Get inFerries to Ireland no longer sail from Ayrshire, you need to go to Cairnryan near Stranraer for the car ferries to Belfast and Larne.
- Get inFerries from Ardrossan sail to Brodick on the Isle of Arran.
- Get inYou can cross that island by road for the ferry from Lochranza to Claonaig, near Tarbert in Kintyre.
- Get inJust north of Ayrshire, frequent ferries sail from Wemyss Bay to Rothesay on the Isle of Bute.
- Get inYou can similarly cross Bute and take a ferry to the Cowal peninsula, then a further ferry onward to Tarbert.
- Get inThere's also a ferry from Largs to the Isle of Great Cumbrae, but there's no other transport from that island so you have to come back the same way.
- Go nextThe ferries to Arran create a short-cut to Tarbert on the Kintyre peninsula.
From Wikivoyage: Ayrshire, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us. That article was last edited 2025-04, so a service it names may have changed or stopped.
Text adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Photograph: Wikimedia Commons (see Commons), Wikimedia Commons.