Saw pit

#4809 among destinations in the United Kingdom

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A saw pit or sawpit is a pit over which lumber is positioned to be sawed with a long two-handled saw by two people, one standing above the timber and the other below. It was used for producing sawn planks from tree trunks, which could then be cut down into boards, pales, posts, etc. Many towns, villages and country estates had their own saw pits. The greatest user of sawn timber in past centuries was the shipbuilding industry. ()

Coordinates: 55°40'11"N, 4°33'60"W

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Nearby attractions include: Kilmaurs Place, Eglinton Loch, Lands of Lainshaw, Chapeltoun.

3 miSE
Forts and castles, Vernacular architecture
Kilmaurs Place, Kilmaurs
76 min walk • Kilmaurs Place, The Place or Kilmaurs House, is an old mansion house and the ruins of Kilmaurs Tower grid reference NS41234112 are partly incorporated, Kilmaurs, East Ayrshire, Scotland.
4 miSW
Nature, Natural attraction, Lake
Eglinton Loch
103 min walk • Eglinton Loch is a small freshwater loch in the North Ayrshire Council Areas, lying in a holm of the Lugton Water near Irvine and Kilwinning, within Eglinton Country Park, in the parish of Kilwinning.
1.5 miE
Forts and castles
Lands of Lainshaw, Stewarton
38 min walk • The Lands of Lainshaw lie in Strathannick and were part of the Lordship of Stewarton, in East Ayrshire, Scotland. Lainshaw House is a category B listed mansion, lying in a prominent position above the Annick Water and its holm in the Parish of Stewarton, Scotland.
0.5 miSE
Archaeological site
Chapeltoun
14 min walk • Chapeltoun is an estate on the banks of the Annick Water in East Ayrshire, Scotland. This is a rural area famous for its milk and cheese production and the Ayrshire or Dunlop breed of cattle.
2.8 miW
Forts and castles
Montgreenan
71 min walk • Montgreenan is an estate in North Ayrshire, Parish of Kilwinning, Scotland. The Lugton Water runs through the policies and farmland of Montgreenan. Nearby are the hamlets of Torranyard and Auchentiber.
3.9 miW
Forts and castles
Monkredding House
100 min walk • Monkredding formed a small estate in the Parish of Kilwinning, North Ayrshire lying between Kilwinning and Auchentiber on the B778.
2.3 miNE
Village, Forts and castles
Dunlop
60 min walk • Dunlop is a village and parish in East Ayrshire, Scotland. It lies on the A735, north-east of Stewarton, seven miles from Kilmarnock. The road runs on to Lugton and the B706 enters the village from Beith and Burnhouse.
1.5 miE
Forts and castles
Lainshaw Castle, Stewarton
38 min walk • Lainshaw Castle was a 15th century castle about 1.0 mile south-west of Stewarton, East Ayrshire, Scotland, to the north of Annick Water. The castle was incorporated into Lainshaw House over the course of the 17th and 18th centuries.
2.2 miNE
Forts and castles, Vernacular architecture
Barony and Castle of Corsehill, Stewarton
56 min walk • The old Barony and castle of Corsehill lay within the feudal Baillerie of Cunninghame, near Stewarton, now East Ayrshire, Scotland.
2.5 miN
Forts and castles
Barony of Aiket
64 min walk • The Barony of Aiket with its castle, lay within the old feudal bailiary of Cunninghame. The barony lands equate to the extant Parish of Dunlop, East Ayrshire, Scotland.
3.7 miSW
Nature, Natural attraction, Lake
Littlestane Loch
95 min walk • Littlestane Loch, was situated in the mid-Ayrshire clayland near Stanecastle, Irvine, North Ayrshire, Scotland. It is nowadays only visible as an area of permanent water in the Scottish Wildlife Trust Sourlie Nature Reserve.