Halket Loch

#5679 among destinations in the United Kingdom

Nature, Natural attraction, Lake

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Halket Loch' also known as Halkhead or Halketh, was situated in the mid-Ayrshire clayland near Lugton. It is visible as a surface depression in pastureland, sometimes partially flooded, situated in a low-lying area close to farms and dwellings of East, North and Middle Halket and Craighead in the Parish of Dunlop, East Ayrshire, Scotland. The loch was natural, sitting in a hollow created by glaciation. The loch waters drained via the Glazert Water that joins the Annick Water. ()

Elevation: 653 ft a.s.l.Coordinates: 55°26'24"N, 4°18'36"W

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Halket Loch – popular in the area (distance from the attraction)

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

1.1 miN
Architecture, 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.
2.1 miNE
Forts and castles
Terringzean Castle, Cumnock
54 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.
5.9 miNW
Forts and castles
Mauchline Castle, Mauchline
150 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.
5.1 miN
Forts and castles
Sorn Castle
132 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
Bridge
Woodroad Viaduct, Cumnock
63 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.
4.8 miNE
Archaeological site
Medieval turf building in Cronberry
123 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.
3.9 miNW
Nature, Natural attraction, Cave
Wallace's Cave
99 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.
4.4 miNW
Nature, Natural attraction, Cave
Peden's Cave
113 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.
2.2 miE
Bridge
Glaisnock Viaduct, Cumnock
56 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.
5.3 miW
Forts and castles
Trabboch Castle
135 min walk • Trabboch Castle is a ruined L-plan tower house in the old Barony of Trabboch, Parish of Stair, East Ayrshire, Scotland.
4.6 miNW
Memorial
Ballochmyle cup and ring marks
117 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.