Auchinleck
#7307 among destinations in the United Kingdom
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, Museum
Dumfries 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 castles
Terringzean 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 castles
Mauchline 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 castles
Sorn 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 miSEBridge
Woodroad 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 site
Medieval 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, Cave
Wallace'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, Cave
Peden'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 miSEBridge
Glaisnock 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 miNWMemorial
Ballochmyle 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 miSETown
New 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.