Blae Loch

#2924 among destinations in the United Kingdom

Nature, Natural attraction, Lake

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The Blae Loch is a small freshwater loch situated in a hollow in a low-lying area beneath Blaelochhead Hill in the Parish of Beith, North Ayrshire, Scotland. ()

Length: 600 ftWidth: 200 ftElevation: 387 ft a.s.l.Coordinates: 55°44'47"N, 4°33'21"W

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

Nearby attractions include: Beith Parish Churches, Caldwell, Dunlop, RSPB Lochwinnoch Nature Reserve.

3 miW
Church
Beith Parish Churches, Beith
76 min walk • Beith Parish Church was formed from the Union of Beith High Church and Beith Trinity Church. Services are held in the former High Church building in Kirk Road The Beith High Church was built in 1807 and extended in 1885. Gothic T-plan kirk dominated by the tall five-stage tower. Stained glass by Gordon Webster.
1.3 miNE
Forts and castles
Caldwell
33 min walk • Caldwell is a mansion and old estate with the remains of a castle nearby. These lands lie close to the Lugton Water and the villages of Uplawmoor in East Renfrewshire and Lugton in East Ayrshire.
3.3 miS
Village, Forts and castles
Dunlop
84 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.
3.8 miNW
55°47'19"N • 4°37'8"W
RSPB Lochwinnoch Nature Reserve, Lochwinnoch
97 min walk • Nature and wildlife, Park
3.2 miW
Archaeological site
The Lands of Roughwood
83 min walk • Roughwood once Ruchwood is a farm, originally a estate, possessing at one time a small tower castle. Roughwood is situated near to the town of Beith in North Ayrshire, Scotland; the lands lay within the old Lordship of Giffen.
2.9 miS
Forts and castles
Barony of Aiket
73 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.
2 miN
Forts and castles
Auchenbathie Tower
51 min walk • Auchenbathie, Auchinbathie Tower or rarely Barcraigs Tower is a ruined fortification, a tower house, once held by the Wallace Clan of Elderslie, situated in Renfrewshire, Parish of Lochwinnoch, Scotland.
2.3 miW
Forts and castles
Hill of Beith Castle, Beith
60 min walk • The old Barony and castle, fortalice, or tower house of Hill of Beith lay in the feudal Regality of Kilwinning, within the Baillerie of Cunninghame, and the Sherrifdom of Ayr, now the Parish of Beith, North Ayrshire, Scotland.
1.9 miNW
Nature, Natural attraction, Lake
Lowes Loch
49 min walk • Lowes Loch, The Lochs or Loch of Hill is now a small natural freshwater loch in the North Ayrshire Council Areas, lying in a glacial kettle hole, once of greater extent, lying below Brownmuir and Lochland Hills on the Threepwood Road, near Beith, in the Parish of Beith.
3.6 miN
Nature, Natural attraction, Lake
Walls Loch
93 min walk • Walls Loch is situated at a height of 560 feet, below the Walls Hill Iron Age fort and to the east of Broadfield Hill on the lands of North Castlewalls Farm, Whittliemuir, Howwood, Renfrewshire, Scotland.
2 miS
Stela
Thurgartstone
51 min walk • The Thurgartstone or Ogrestone is a prominent glacial erratic stone near Dunlop in East Ayrshire, Scotland. The Thurgartstone stands in a field at Brandleside Farm and is thought to have been a rocking stone at one time, but it no longer moves due to a build up of soil beneath.