Burleigh Castle, Milnathort

Name: Burleigh Castle
Address: 2, Burleigh Castle Steading, Milnathort, KY13 9GG, United Kingdom
Telephone: +44 1786 450000

#1 among attractions in Milnathort

Top attraction, Ruins, Architecture, Forts and castles

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The remains of Burleigh Castle are located just outside the village of Milnathort, 1.5 miles north of Kinross, in Perth and Kinross, Scotland. The castle dates from the 15th and 16th centuries, and now sits beside the A911 road, opposite a 19th-century steading, recently adapted into housing. ()

Alternative names: Coordinates: 56°13'33"N, 3°24'23"W

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2, Burleigh Castle SteadingMilnathort KY13 9GG United Kingdom

Contact

+44 1786 450000

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Burleigh Castle – popular in the area (distance from the attraction)

Nearby attractions include: Lochleven Castle, Bunnet Stane, Tullibole Castle, Balvaird Castle.

1.8 miS
Historical place, Reportedly haunted, Forts and castles
Lochleven Castle, Kinross
47 min walk • Lochleven Castle is a ruined castle on an island in Loch Leven, in the Perth and Kinross local authority area of Scotland. Possibly built around 1300, the castle was the site of military action during the Wars of Scottish Independence.
4.1 miNE
Rock, Nature, Natural attraction
Bunnet Stane
104 min walk • The Bunnet Stane is a rock formation near the hamlet of Gateside in Fife, at the foot of West Lomond. It sits upon one of the calciferous sandstone outcrops of the Old Red Sandstone suie that exist around the base of the Lomond Hills.
5.3 miSW
Forts and castles
Tullibole Castle
137 min walk • Tullibole Castle is a 17th-century castle in Crook of Devon, a village in Perthshire. It was built by John Halliday in 1608 and is currently owned by the Moncreiff family. The castle was designated a Category A listed building in 1971.
5 miNE
Forts and castles, Vernacular architecture
Balvaird Castle, Glenfarg
128 min walk • Balvaird Castle in Perthshire is a traditional late medieval Scottish tower house. It is located in the Ochil Hills, around 5 kilometres south of Abernethy. The name Balvaird is from Baile a' Bhàird, 'Township of the Bard' in Gaelic. Balvaird Castle is a scheduled monument, and is in the care of Historic Environment Scotland.
4.4 miE
Nature, Natural attraction, Hill
West Lomond
113 min walk • West Lomond is the highest point in the county of Fife, Scotland and the highest peak in the Lomond Hills. Its cone-shaped summit, which is the remains of a volcanic plug, rises above an escarpment of Carboniferous sandstone and limestone layers, capped with a quartz-microgabbro sill.
4.4 miS
Nature, Natural attraction, Hill
Benarty Hill
113 min walk • Benarty Hill, locally simply Benarty, rises above and to the west of Ballingry, in the west of Fife, Scotland. The summit ridge forms the boundary with Perth and Kinross.
2.4 miSE
Park
Loch Leven, Kinross
62 min walk • Loch Leven is a fresh water loch located immediately to the east of the burgh of Kinross in Perth and Kinross council area, central Scotland. Roughly triangular, the loch is about 6 km at its longest.
6 miSE
Nature, Natural attraction, Lake
Loch Ore
153 min walk • Loch Ore is a loch situated in Fife, Scotland. It forms the core of Lochore Meadows Country Park. It is used mainly for leisure purposes, especially yachting, although the uneven depth can make speed boating problematic.
3.3 miSE
Island
St Serf's Inch
85 min walk • St Serf's Inch or St Serf's Island is an island in Loch Leven, in south-eastern Perth and Kinross, Scotland. It was the home of a Culdee and then an Augustinian monastic community, St Serf's Inch Priory.