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Monkton (South Ayrshire)
Monkton est un village dans le South Ayrshire, en Écosse.
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Monkton, South Ayrshire
Monkton is a small town in the parish of Monkton and Prestwick in South Ayrshire, Scotland. The town of Prestwick is around 1+1⁄2 miles (2.5 kilometres) south of the village, and it borders upon Glasgow Prestwick Airport.
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Orangefield House, South Ayrshire
Orangefield House, previously known as 'Monkton House', was located near the village of Monkton, Ayrshire in the Parish of Monkton and Prestwick in South Ayrshire, Scotland; the settlement borders upon Glasgow Prestwick Airport, for which it served for a while as the control tower.
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Monkton Windmill
The Monkton Windmill, or Monkton Dovecote, was originally an early 18th century vaulted tower windmill located on the outskirts of the village of Monkton on the site of an Iron Age hillfort in South Ayrshire, Scotland. It was later converted into a dovecote and stood on the lands of the old Orangefield Estate.
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1977 British Airtours Boeing 707 crash
On 17 March 1977, a British Airtours Boeing 707 being used for pilot training crashed and caught fire during its take-off roll at Glasgow Prestwick Airport. All four crew members on board survived.
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Monkton railway station
Monkton railway station was a railway station on the Glasgow to Ayr main line serving the village of Monkton, Ayrshire, Scotland. It opened in 1839. Monkton did not develop and the station was closed in 1940. The location may be identified by the overbridge that leads to Monkton House.
The site of the former station is occupied by fuel sidings used by Prestwick Airport.