Parks and Gardens UK

Organisations associated with this site

Historic Scotland Role: Designating Authority

The National Trust for Scotland Role: Owner

Wardrop & Reid Role: Architects

Sources of information

A New Map of Ayrshire

Captain M. J. Armstrong and Son A New Map of Ayrshire (1775)

An inventory of gardens and designed landscapes in Scotland

Land Use Consultants, An Inventory of Gardens and Designed Landscapes in Scotland ([n.p.]: The Countryside Commission of Scotland, 1987), Vol. 2, pp. 218-25 and p. 388

Atlas Novus - South Carrick/North Carrick/Kyle/Cunninghame

Joan Blaeu Atlas Novus - South Carrick/North Carrick/Kyle/Cunninghame (Amsterdam, 1654)

Ayrshire and Arran: An Illustrated Architectural Guide

Close, R. (ed), Ayrshire and Arran: An Illustrated Architectural Guide (Edinburgh: The Rutland Press, 1992), pp. 169-72

Ayrshire Garden and Designed Landscape Survey

Peter McGowan Associates with Christopher Dingwall, 'Culzean Castle', in Ayrshire Garden and Designed Landscape Survey (Prestwick: South Ayrshire Council, 2007) [on CD-ROM]

Conifers in Cultivation

Chittenden, F. J., (ed), Conifers in Cultivation: Report of the Royal Horticultural Society Conifer Conference 1931 ([n.p.]: The Royal Horticultural Society, 1931), p. 466

Geographical Collections relating to Scotland made by Walter Macfarlane

Mitchell, Sir A. (ed), Geographical Collections Relating to Scotland made by Walter Macfarlane (Edinburgh: [n.pub.], 1907), Vol. 2, p. 9

Historic Scotland An Inventory of Gardens and Designed Landscapes

Historic Scotland, 'Culzean Castle', Gardens and Designed Landscapes, <http://www.historic-scotland.gov.uk/gardens_search> [accessed 29 October 2007]

Lost Ayrshire: Ayrshire's Lost Architectural Heritage

Love, D., Lost Ayrshire: Ayrshire's Lost Architectural Heritage (Edinburgh: Birlinn, 2005), pp. 8-10

Military Survey of Scotland

William Roy Military Survey of Scotland (1750)

Ordnance Survey County Series Six Inch

Ordnance Survey County Series Six Inch (Southampton, 1854)

The Castles and Mansions of Ayrshire with Historical and Descriptive Accounts

Millar, A. H., The Castles and Mansions of Ayrshire with Historical and Descriptive Accounts (Glasgow: Grimsay Press, 2004), pp. 64-5

The Castles of Scotland

Coventry, M., The Castles of Scotland (Edinburgh: Goblinshead, 1997), pp. 138-9

The Gardener's Magazine

Loudon, J. C., 'General Results of a Gardening Tour made in 1831', The Gardener's Magazine, 1833, pp. 8-9

[Old] Statistical Account of Scotland 1791-1799

Sinclair, J. (ed), [Old] Statistical Account of Scotland ([n.p.]: [n.pub.], 1971-9), Vol. 10, pp. 474-500

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