The birthplace of Scottish poet Robert Burns at Murdoch's Lone, Alloway. Ayr. SCO 8607
The cottage has had a number of uses, including a spell as a pub, run by a Mr Goudie from Riccarton who saw the opportunity to exploit Burns's developing reputation. At first therefore the cottage was not greatly valued. The Suffragettes recognised its importance, having once endeavoured to set the cottage alight[1] In 1818, the English poet John Keats took a trip to Scotland to visit the home, years after Burns' death in 1796. Before Keats arrived, he wrote to a friend that "one of the pleasantest means of annulling self is approaching such a shrine as the cottage of Burns — we need not think of his misery — that is all gone — bad luck to it — I shall look upon it all with unmixed pleasure.
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Location: Murdoch's Lone, Alloway. Ayr, South Ayrshire. Galloway. Scotland. United Kingdom.
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