Girdle Toll
Girdle Toll
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| Girdle Toll shown within North Ayrshire | |
| OS grid reference | NS325395 |
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| Country | Scotland |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Post town | IRVINE |
| Postcode district | KA11, KA12 |
| Dialling code | 01294 |
| Police | Scottish |
| Fire | Scottish |
| Ambulance | Scottish |
| EU Parliament | Scotland |
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Girdle Toll is a small village on the outskirts of Irvine, North Ayrshire.
Girdle Toll is located east of the Stanecastle Roundabout located next to the Stanecastle Keep. This area of Irvine is 10 miles (16 km) from Prestwick Airport and only 23 miles (37 km) from the city of Glasgow. Nearby is Eglinton Country Park. The central part of Girdle Toll is located off of the Lochilbo Road and Girdle Toll; it previously formed part of the A736 route to Glasgow. The A736 now bypasses the area just to the west.
The area has several local bus services operated by two companies Stagecoach Western and Shuttle Buses.
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Annick Primary school and Stanecastle Primary school are within the same grounds as each other, they are merely 100m apart from each other. The children from Annick Primary School occasionally visit Stanecastle from time to do activities with the special needs children. Annick Primary and Stanecastle are situated in the fields between Bensley Rise and Burns crescent. The schools were built in 1979.
Lawthorn Primary school is situated close to the Spar shop and pharmacy at the Littlestane roundabout at the top of the Girdle Toll Road, you pass it when you head along the old Glasgow road. Lawthorn Primary school was built in 2000 to relieve the slightly overcrowded Annick Primary school. It now has over double the number of pupils than Annick Primary has.
The Gulab Indian Restaurant is located just off the Stanecastle Roundabout.
The Annick Water passes through Girdle Toll which also flows through Bourtreehill and passes by the outskirts of Eglinton Country Park. The river is well known for having a healthy stock of trout and salmon during the fishing season. The river is known to be mostly pollution free.
The Irvine New Town Trail passes through Girdle Toll, it forms part of the British National Cycle Network with routes 7 and 73 forming part of the route. The route forms a ring around the town and passes through Eglinton Country Park, Kilwinning, Bourtreehill, Dreghorn and passes through the town centre of Irvine. It connects to route 7 which is used by locals cycling/walking to nearby Troon and Ayr.
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