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Free admission; gift shop; garden; WC; car parking.
An ancient church dating from 1655, with Cromwellian associations and it was here that Burns was baptised.
A ruin in Burns’ day where William Burnes, the poet’s father is buried in the churchyard.
In the poem ‘Tam o’ Shanter’, Burns described the ‘warlocks and witches in a dance, within Alloway’s auld haunted kirk’.
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- Landmark