Irvine, a Stroll to the Harbour
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odd smuggler or two. Follow the path up the slope between the Harbour Arts Centre and The A Stro to the Ha ourIrvine Walks Ship Inn. Turn le along the road and then turn le into Gottries Road. Look out for a small pack Here at the Trinity, we aim to encourage and support of sculptured dogs as you walk along Gottries Road. Continue people to be more active by: to where the road bends to the • walking and cyclingLandscape at version home, of the school logo or work le . Now carefully cross over to the cobbled area between the • walking, cycling or using public transport for imposing Georgian building and everyday journeys and everyday lives the large brick industrial building The Trinity has been realised with support from which now houses the Maritime Museum. European Regional Development funds under 7. A er passing the Georgian Building turn le and continue Transport Scotland’s Low Carbon Travel and Transport to the junction with Montgomery Street. Here turn right and Challenge Fund and North Ayrshire Council. passing a number of small shops and residences continue to Length 1.9 miles. the railway bridge. From here retrace your steps back through Come in and see us: This walk is entirely on surfaced paths. the shopping centre to the Trinity. Trinity Church, Bridgegate, Irvine 1. From the Trinity go down the steps or slope, turn le and Contact us: enter the Rivergate Shopping Centre. Walk all the way through t: 01294 204800 the centre crossing over the River Irvine. The shopping centre e: [email protected] now spans the river where the Watter Bridge once stood. A stone bridge stood in this position from www.thetrinity.org.uk the 16th century; a modern bridge replaced this in the 18th century before Scottish Maritime being demolished in 1974 to make way Museum for the shopping centre. European Regional Development Fund 7228 Trinity Walk cards A Stroll to the Harbour WEB EDIT.indd 1 08/01/2020 17:33 KILWINNING River Lugton Garnock Water Eglinton Country Park Kilwinning Paisley Glasgow 7 Ayrshire Central Hospital Lawthorn Primary School Eglinton Medical Practice Perceton Lanfine 7 Surgery Castle Park Primary School Girdle Toll Irvine Royal Academy Frew Terrace Surgery Stanecastle Primary School & Nursery Annick Primary School 7 Haysholm School 73 St. Mark’s Primary School Cycle Loop Woodlands Primary School St. John Ogilvie 7 Primary School Bourtreehill Medical Practice 73 Bourtreehill 2. A er leaving the shopping centre bear le and River Irvine, and in the distance you pass in front of the main entrance of the supermarket. can see the River Garnock. Watch Continue on towards the railway using the pedestrian out for a variety of birds including crossing and pass under fi rst the railway and then the curlew, terns andIRVINE the ubiquitous noisy The Portal Sports Centre road bridge. Did you know that the railway station & Townhouse Museum NAC Bridgegate and greedy gulls. You may be lucky opened on 5 August 1839 as part of the Glasgow, enough to see a seal bobbing about Springside Townhead Surgery 73 Springside Paisley, Kilmarnock and Ayr Railway? There was a branch Primary School 1 in the waterMuseum or a roe deer over on the leaving here for Crosshouse and Kilmarnock, which fell North Ayrshire Council Ardeer peninsula just across the river. to the Beeching railway closures in 1965. The old railway Glebe Primary School bed now forms part of the National Cycle Network Route 73 2 5. Carry straight on until you come 73. 7 Shopping to a statue of a man with a horse. The 73 73 Carters played an important role in the 3 3. Carefully cross the road onto the right-hand side of growth and prosperity of the town. They were responsible Elderbank Montgomery Street and continue straight on. Watch for the delivery of merchandise brought by ship and destined Primary School Crosshouse out for cyclists as the pavement here is shared use. For a 4 Loudoun Montgomeryfor the town and they carried manufactured goods from the Shopping long time Montgomery Street was called the ‘Halfway’, 7 Maritime Museum Primary School town and surrounding areas to the harbour to be exported 73 meaning the “way to the sea”. (In Scots the word ‘haaf’ Harbourside by sea. The harbour here was developed in the 17th century. Fullarton Dundonald means the open sea). It was laid out in about 1677 to link 5 Irvine’s harbour functioned as the chief port for Glasgow until Medical Practice the town to its new harbour. The name was changed to Greenwood 6 the early 18th century when Port Glasgow was developed, Academy Montgomery Street in honour Harbour then a century later, the River Clyde was deepened to take of the Christian poet James Arts Centre ships directly to Glasgow. Dreghorn Montgomery who was born Shopping there in 1771. He wrote over 6. Now carefully cross the road and take a path leading 200 hymns many of which are Shopping uphill between the Harbour Arts Centre and The Ship Inn. It still sung today. is not clear exactly when The Ship Inn Dreghorn was built but is thought to date back Primary School 4. A er crossing the entrance to the 16th Century. It is considered to the Puff ers Cafe, part of the 7 to be the oldest hostelry in Irvine Maritime Museum, you will and would once have seen trading start to see the estuary of the deals completed, sailors taking refreshment and maybe even the Irvine Beach Reproduced by permission of Ordnance Survey on behalf Crown copyright (C) of andHMSO. database right 2016. All rights Council reserved. North OS Ayrshire Licence Number 100023393 7228 Trinity Walk cards A Stroll to the Harbour WEB EDIT.indd 2 08/01/2020 17:33 River Irvine 7 Core Path Network Drybridge 7 National Cycle Routes 7 & 73 73 (Part of Core Path Network) Wider Path Network 7 Bus Routes and Stops Medical Centres 7 Play Parks Barassie Train Troon Prestwick Airport Ayr Stranraer Community Centres 7 Dundonald KILWINNING River Lugton Garnock Water Eglinton Country Park Kilwinning Paisley Glasgow 7 Ayrshire Central Hospital Lawthorn Primary School Eglinton Medical Practice Perceton Lanfine 7 Surgery Castle Park Primary School Girdle Toll Irvine Royal Academy Frew Terrace Surgery Stanecastle Primary School & Nursery Annick Primary School 7 Haysholm School 73 St. Mark’s Primary School Cycle Loop Woodlands Primary School St. John Ogilvie 7 Primary School Bourtreehill Medical Practice 73 Bourtreehill 2. A er leaving the shopping centre bear le and River Irvine, and in the distance you pass in front of the main entrance of the supermarket. can see the River Garnock. Watch Continue on towards the railway using the pedestrian out for a variety of birds including crossing and pass under fi rst the railway and then the curlew, terns andIRVINE the ubiquitous noisy The Portal Sports Centre road bridge. Did you know that the railway station & Townhouse Museum NAC Bridgegate and greedy gulls. You may be lucky opened on 5 August 1839 as part of the Glasgow, enough to see a seal bobbing about Springside Townhead Surgery 73 Springside Paisley, Kilmarnock and Ayr Railway? There was a branch Primary School 1 in the waterMuseum or a roe deer over on the leaving here for Crosshouse and Kilmarnock, which fell North Ayrshire Council Ardeer peninsula just across the river. to the Beeching railway closures in 1965. The old railway Glebe Primary School bed now forms part of the National Cycle Network Route 73 2 5. Carry straight on until you come 73. 7 Shopping to a statue of a man with a horse. The 73 73 Carters played an important role in the 3 3. Carefully cross the road onto the right-hand side of growth and prosperity of the town. They were responsible Elderbank Montgomery Street and continue straight on. Watch for the delivery of merchandise brought by ship and destined Primary School Crosshouse out for cyclists as the pavement here is shared use. For a 4 Loudoun Montgomeryfor the town and they carried manufactured goods from the Shopping long time Montgomery Street was called the ‘Halfway’, 7 Maritime Museum Primary School town and surrounding areas to the harbour to be exported 73 meaning the “way to the sea”. (In Scots the word ‘haaf’ Harbourside by sea. The harbour here was developed in the 17th century. Fullarton Dundonald means the open sea). It was laid out in about 1677 to link 5 Irvine’s harbour functioned as the chief port for Glasgow until Medical Practice the town to its new harbour. The name was changed to Greenwood 6 the early 18th century when Port Glasgow was developed, Academy Montgomery Street in honour Harbour then a century later, the River Clyde was deepened to take of the Christian poet James Arts Centre ships directly to Glasgow. Dreghorn Montgomery who was born Shopping there in 1771. He wrote over 6. Now carefully cross the road and take a path leading 200 hymns many of which are Shopping uphill between the Harbour Arts Centre and The Ship Inn. It still sung today. is not clear exactly when The Ship Inn Dreghorn was built but is thought to date back Primary School 4. A er crossing the entrance to the 16th Century. It is considered to the Puff ers Cafe, part of the 7 to be the oldest hostelry in Irvine Maritime Museum, you will and would once have seen trading start to see the estuary of the deals completed, sailors taking refreshment and maybe even the Irvine Beach Reproduced by permission of Ordnance Survey on behalf Crown copyright (C) of and HMSO.