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Tarbolton

Anyone following the Burns Trail will want to seek out this small village in order to visit the charming 17th century house known as the Bachelors’ Club (National Trust for Scotland). Between 1777 and 1784, the Burns family lived at Lochlea Farm (private) near Tarbolton and during these years Burns was a leading light of the Bachelors’ Club, a debating society where his ardent republican views ensured that discussions were never less than lively. As well as debating, drinking and pursuing pretty women (as his poem The Tarbolton Lassies confirms), another of Rabbie’s passions was dancing. It was in this same house that he attended dancing lessons and was also initiated as a freemason. The thatched white-washed building contains a small museum with material relating to Burns’ life in the area.

 Tarbolton Parish Church is an elegant, imposing building of 1821, standing on a low hill.