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Kilmarnock
is located roughly between Glasgow
and Ayr and is one of the largest towns in Ayrshire. The
River Irvine runs through its eastern section, and the Kilmarnock Water passes
through it. Kilmarnock's traditional industries were
based around textiles and heavy
engineering. Kilmarnock has excellent road links to
Glasgow with the M77 motorway now
extending as far as Fenwick. Kilmarnock lies on the
main road between Edinburgh, Livingston, and Ayrshire.
The town is host to a football club named Kilmarnock FC,
the oldest professional club in Scotland. Their home ground is the curiously
named Rugby Park. The reason for the name of the ground is that when founded,
the club played both football and rugby. The club has the largest supporter base
of any team outwith Scotland's four major cities. Rugby Park was also one of the
first football grounds in Scotland to have floodlights installed. In recent
years the stadium has been modernised, firstly to bring it in line with the
all-seating regulations, then rebuilt totally to make a new ground. It has also
hosted international football matches as well as music concerts, the most recent
one was when Elton John performed here in June 2005.
There are two golf courses in the town, Annanhill Golf
Course and Caprington Golf Course, which has both an 18 hole course and a nine
hole course.
The local leisure complexes include the Galleon Centre:
with a 25 metre swimming pool, baby pool, ice rink, squash courts, sauna, gym,
games hall, bar area, bowling green and the New Northwest Centre (formerly the
Hunter Centre) which contains an up-to-date community gym and various local
medical facilities.
Kilmarnock has 17 schools; 13 primary and four secondary.
There is also a college in the town, Kilmarnock College, formerly Kilmarnock
Technical College. The schools are managed by East Ayrshire
Council.
Secondary
schools
- Kilmarnock Academy
- Saint Joseph’s RC Academy
- Grange Academy
- James Hamilton Academy
] Primary schools
- Saint Andrews R.C. Primary
- Mount Carmel R.C. Primary
- Loanhead Primary
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