Woodroad Viaduct, Cumnock

Name: Woodroad Viaduct
Address: Cumnock, United Kingdom

#3 among attractions in Cumnock

Top attraction, Bridge

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The Woodroad Viaduct, also known as Bank Viaduct or Templand Viaduct, is a viaduct carrying the Glasgow South Western Line over the Lugar Water at Cumnock in East Ayrshire, Scotland, United Kingdom. Since April 1971, it has been recognised as being a category A listed building. ()

Coordinates: 55°27'31"N, 4°15'25"W

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Cumnock United Kingdom

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Woodroad Viaduct – popular in the area (distance from the attraction)

Nearby attractions include: Dumfries House, Terringzean Castle, Mauchline Castle, Sorn Castle.

2 miW
Architecture, History museum, Museum
Dumfries House, Cumnock
52 min walk • Dumfries House is a Palladian country house in Ayrshire, Scotland. It is located within a large estate, around two miles west of Cumnock.
~1900 ftW
Forts and castles
Terringzean Castle, Cumnock
10 min walk • Terringzean Castle, also Taringzean, pronounced 'Tringan', is a Category B listed castle ruin lying above the River Lugar and the Terringzean Holm in the policies of Dumfries House, Parish of Cumnock, Scotland.
6.2 miNW
Forts and castles
Mauchline Castle, Mauchline
159 min walk • Mauchline Castle, also known as Abbot Hunter's Tower, is a rectangular tower house dating from the fifteenth century, in Mauchline, East Ayrshire, Scotland.
4.2 miNW
Forts and castles
Sorn Castle
108 min walk • Sorn Castle is located by the River Ayr just outside the village of Sorn in East Ayrshire, Scotland. The castle comprises a medieval tower house, which was extended over the years, and remodelled in the Scots Baronial style by David Bryce in the 1860s.
2.4 miNE
Archaeological site
Medieval turf building in Cronberry
61 min walk • Excavations in Cronberry, East Ayrshire, Scotland by Headland Archaeology revealed a medieval turf building and a nearby enclosure of unknown date. The turf structure was sub-rectangular and contained a hearth surrounded by some paving. Pottery dating to no later than the 16th century was recovered from the interior.
5 miW
Nature, Natural attraction, Cave
Wallace's Cave
127 min walk • Wallace's Cave in the Lugar Gorge at Auchinleck in the Parish of Auchinleck is an 18th-century grotto contemporary with Dr Johnson's Summerhouse, also located on the Auchinleck Estate.
5.6 miW
Nature, Natural attraction, Cave
Peden's Cave
144 min walk • Peden's Cave is at least partly artificial and is set into a craggy outcrop of red sandstone rocks overlooking the River Lugar just below the farm of Auchinbay in East Ayrshire, Scotland, close to the town of Ochiltree.
0.7 miS
Bridge
Glaisnock Viaduct, Cumnock
18 min walk • The Glaisnock Viaduct or Caponacre Viaduct is a viaduct over the Glaisnock Water, on the former Glasgow and South Western Railway. It is located in Cumnock, East Ayrshire.
4.9 miNW
Memorial
Ballochmyle cup and ring marks
126 min walk • The Ballochmyle cup and ring marks were first recorded at Ballochmyle, Mauchline, East Ayrshire, Scotland in 1986, very unusually carved on a vertical red sandstone cliff face, forming one of the most extensive areas of such carvings as yet found in Britain. They have been designated a scheduled monument.
5.2 miSE
Town
New Cumnock
134 min walk • New Cumnock is a town in East Ayrshire, Scotland. It expanded during the coal-mining era from the late 18th century, and mining remained its key industry until its pits were shut in the 1960s.
2.4 miSW
Nature, Natural attraction, Lake
Halket Loch
63 min walk • Halket Loch' also known as Halkhead or Halketh, was situated in the mid-Ayrshire clayland near Lugton.