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Kilmarnock Cross is a public square in Kilmarnock, East Ayrshire, Scotland. In Rambles Around Kilmarnock (1875) Archibald R Adamson described it as "most spacious, although of a most peculiar form, having no less than seven streets branching off it.
Crosshouse is a village in East Ayrshire about 3 kilometres (2 miles) west of Kilmarnock. It grew around the cross-roads of the main Kilmarnock to Irvine road, once classified as the A71 but now reduced in status to the B7081, with a secondary road (the B751) running from Kilmaurs south to Gatehead and beyond towards Prestwick.
Kilmarnock & District History Group · Kilmarnock · Ayrshire · KA1 3HY Kilmarnock Cross. Image Gallery; Location Map; Contact and Social Media
KILMARNOCK CROSS. Below are some street views from the area around Kilmarnock Cross. See also the pages for the other streets - Portland Street, King Street, Duke Street. Many of the images also include the area around The Cross. Image - ayrshirehstory.com.
8 The Cross For centuries, Kilmarnock was a small village huddled around the Laigh Kirk and the Cross. It was hemmed in by small dwellings and was the scene of markets, executions, protests, entertainment and royal proclamations. The main feature of the Cross today is a statue of Robert Burns and John Wilson. During Burns’
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Kilmarnock Cross Between 1834 and 1840 David Octavius Hill toured around the south-west of Scotland painting a series of landscapes and townscapes in oil and watercolour which were then engraved and published in a book entitiled "The Land of Burns".
