Barrhill South Ayrshire / Barrhill Station and School.

Barrhill is a village in South Ayrshire, near to the border with Dumfries and Galloway. It is situated where the A714 meets the road to New Luce. It lies 12 miles south of Girvan and 18 miles north of Newton Stewart, nestled in the Carrick Hills and rural Countryside with easy access to the coast. Stranraer is about 20 miles away across the moors via New Luce. It also boasts a railway station a half mile from the main village. Barrhill station is on the Glasgow South Western line and offers around six departures most weekdays and saturdays both to Glasgow, via Ayr and to Stranraer from around 8am to midnight. A limited bus service also runs between Girvan and Newton Stewart.

Barrhill Village

The Barrhill Village area has a population of around 400 inhabitants. Local amenities in the main village include a hotel, pub, a small store and a primary school with an enrollment of around 30 pupils, catering from nursery through to age 11 years. Barrhill also has a small part time doctor's surgery, served by doctors from their main practice at Ballantrae, a bowling green and a Village Hall, where farmer's markets are sometimes held. The main local employer in Barrhill is Barr Construction.

Barrhill School

For weekly grocery and household items head to Girvan, Newton Stewart or Stranraer, the possible future home of a large casino. Stranraer also offers direct car and passenger ferry crossings to Ireland by Stena Line or P and O Ferries. For large household purchases, clothes and electronics head 30 miles north to Ayr, which also has a multi screen cinema for entertainment. For information, a single screen cinema can also be found in Newton Stewart.

Barrhill also has a caravan park and a large Country House Hotel, which are located about a mile north of the main Barrhill Village. Kildonan House is an impressive 60 bed mansion, formerly constructed as the home of David Wallace, MP. Since then the home has been run as a boarding school by nuns and is currently a Country Hotel, licenced for weddings. Kildonan House was designed with a unique feature. It has seven doors, one for each day of the week. Twelve chimneys, one for each month of the year and 365 windows, one for each day of the year!

Barrhill

The main village of Barrhill is split by a road bridge under which the cross water of luce flows down into the River Duisk. The Martyrs Tomb walk is a scenic walk following the Cross water banks from the main village to the Tomb of the two covenanters who were shot dead by soldiers in 1665 for being in possession of the bible. Barrhill is a quaint South Ayrshire Village set amongst the rolling Carrick Hills and rural Countryside, where lambs are often seen playing. Barrhill is very peaceful and relaxing and is an ideal base for Country walks and to explore the Galloway Forest Park, which has been recently designated as a dark skies park for astronomers and the South Ayrshire and Dumfries and Galloway coast line.