Wallace's Cave

#4612 among destinations in the United Kingdom

Nature, Natural attraction, Cave

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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. It shows superior workmanship in its construction, possibly being the enlargement of a pre-existing cave. The cave or grotto lies downstream of the confluence of the Dippol Burn with the River Lugar and is reached via a once well formed path, however access is now hazardous due to the condition of the cliff edge path and the vertical drop into the River Lugar. ()

Length: 12 ftCoordinates: 55°28'50"N, 4°22'39"W

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ScotlandUnited Kingdom

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Wallace's Cave – popular in the area (distance from the attraction)

Nearby attractions include: Dumfries House, Bachelors' Club, Fail Monastery, Lochend Loch.

3.2 miSE
Architecture, History museum, Museum
Dumfries House, Cumnock
83 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.
4.8 miNW
Museum, Historical place
Bachelors' Club, Ayr
123 min walk • The Bachelors' Club is a National Trust for Scotland museum located at 1 Sandgate Street, Tarbolton, KA5 5RB. The upstairs room was the largest in Tarbolton and was used for a number of social events.
5.8 miNW
Monastery
Fail Monastery
148 min walk • Fail Monastery, occasionally known as Failford Abbey, had a dedication to 'Saint Mary', and was located at Fail on the bank of the Water of Fail, Parish of Tarbolton near the town of Tarbolton, South Ayrshire.
5.7 miSW
Nature, Natural attraction, Lake
Lochend Loch, Coylton
144 min walk • Lochend Loch, which once had nearly three acres in surface area is now only a small freshwater loch remnant. It lies in the South Ayrshire Council Area, lying on the hill above Joppa, between Gallowhill and Lochend Farm.
4.7 miE
Forts and castles
Terringzean Castle, Cumnock
119 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.
2.4 miN
Forts and castles
Mauchline Castle, Mauchline
62 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.
5.6 miNW
Nature, Natural attraction, Lake
Fail Loch
142 min walk • Fail Loch or Faile Loch was situated in a low-lying area near the old monastery of Fail in the Parish of Tarbolton, South Ayrshire, Scotland. The old Lochlea Loch lies nearby and its waters still feed into Fail Loch via the Mill Burn.
3.8 miNE
Forts and castles
Sorn Castle
97 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.
5 miE
Bridge
Woodroad Viaduct, Cumnock
127 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.
0.7 miW
Nature, Natural attraction, Cave
Peden's Cave
18 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.
5.2 miSE
Bridge
Glaisnock Viaduct, Cumnock
133 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.