Auchinleck
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Facts and practical information
Auchinleck is a village 5 miles southeast of Mauchline, and 2 miles northwest of Cumnock in East Ayrshire, Scotland. ()
ScotlandUnited Kingdom
Auchinleck – popular in the area (distance from the attraction)
Nearby attractions include: Dumfries House, Terringzean Castle, Mauchline Castle, Sorn Castle.
1.1 miSWArchitecture, History museum, MuseumDumfries House, Cumnock
28 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.
1.4 miSEForts and castlesTerringzean Castle, Cumnock
35 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.
4.7 miNWForts and castlesMauchline Castle, Mauchline
120 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.
3.2 miNForts and castlesSorn Castle
81 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.
1.6 miSEBridgeWoodroad Viaduct, Cumnock
41 min walk • 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.
3.4 miEArchaeological siteMedieval turf building in Cronberry
87 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.
3.4 miWNature, Natural attraction, CaveWallace's Cave
87 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.
4.1 miWNature, Natural attraction, CavePeden's Cave
104 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.
2 miSEBridgeGlaisnock Viaduct, Cumnock
51 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.
3.4 miNWMemorialBallochmyle cup and ring marks
86 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.
6.7 miSETownNew Cumnock
170 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.