East Ayrshire - Definition and Overview

East Ayrshire
Geography
Area: - Total - % Water	Ranked 14th 1,262 km² ? %
Admin HQ:	Kilmarnock
ISO 3166-2:	GB-EAY
ONS code:	00QK
Demographics
Population: - Total (April 29, 2001) - Density	Ranked 16th 120,235 95 / km²
Politics
East Ayrshire Council http://www.east-ayrshire.gov.uk
Control:	Labour
MPs:	Des Browne George Foulkes

East Ayrshire is one of 32 unitary council regions in Scotland. It borders onto North Ayrshire, Renfrewshire, South Lanarkshire, South Ayrshire and Dumfries and Galloway.

Towns and villages

• Auchinleck
• Catrine Craigmalloch Cumnock
• Dalmellington Dalrymple Darvel Drongan
• Galston Greenholm
• Kilmarnock
• Mauchline Muirkirk
• Netherthird New Cumnock Newmilns
• Patna
• Riccarton
• Stewarton Sorn

Places of interest

• Loch Doon
• Loch Doon Castle
• Sorn Castle
• Scottish Industrial Railway Centre

Scotland | Council Areas of Scotland

Aberdeen | Aberdeenshire | Angus | Argyll and Bute | Clackmannanshire | Dumfries and Galloway | Dundee | East Ayrshire | East Dunbartonshire | East Lothian | East Renfrewshire | na h-Eileanan Siar (Western Isles) | Edinburgh | Falkirk | Fife | Glasgow | Highland | Inverclyde | Midlothian | Moray | North Ayrshire | North Lanarkshire | Orkney | Perth and Kinross | Renfrewshire | Scottish Borders | Shetland | South Ayrshire | South Lanarkshire | Stirling | West Dunbartonshire | West Lothian