Castle Semple

#1554 among destinations in the United Kingdom

Forts and castles, Top attraction

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Castle Semple is a former mansion house located in Renfrewshire, Scotland. It is situated near the eastern end of Castle Semple Loch, within Clyde Muirshiel Regional Park. ()

Coordinates: 55°48'24"N, 4°35'26"W

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ScotlandUnited Kingdom

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

Nearby attractions include: Barr Castle, Johnstone Castle, Wallace Yew, Beith Parish Churches.

2.2 miSW
Forts and castles
Barr Castle, Lochwinnoch
58 min walk • Barr Castle is a late medieval tower house. It can be seen today as a ruin on a low ridge to the south of the village of Lochwinnoch, Renfrewshire, Scotland.
3.5 miNE
Forts and castles
Johnstone Castle, Johnstone
91 min walk • Johnstone Castle is a structure and former mansion in the town of Johnstone in Renfrewshire, Scotland. It belonged to the Houstons of Milliken, who acquired the estate of Easter Cochrane in 1773.
4.4 miNE
Tree
Wallace Yew, Johnstone
113 min walk • The Wallace Yew is a tree in Elderslie, Renfrewshire in Scotland. It stands on grassland said to be near the home of medieval Scottish leader William Wallace.
4.3 miS
Church
Beith Parish Churches, Beith
109 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.
4.4 miS
Nature, Natural attraction, Lake
Blae Loch
112 min walk • 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.
4.3 miSE
Forts and castles
Caldwell
111 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.
1.7 miSW
55°47'19"N • 4°37'8"W
RSPB Lochwinnoch Nature Reserve, Lochwinnoch
43 min walk • Nature and wildlife, Park
1.3 miSW
Forts and castles, Vernacular architecture
Belltrees Peel, Lochwinnoch
33 min walk • Belltrees Peel is a medieval tower situated on a peninsula in Castle Semple Loch in Renfrewshire, Scotland, on which was once an island.
3.7 miSW
Forts and castles
Barony of Ladyland
95 min walk • The Barony of Ladyland was in the old feudal Baillerie of Cunninghame, near Kilbirnie in what is now North Ayrshire, Scotland.
2.5 miSE
Forts and castles
Auchenbathie Tower
65 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.
3.9 miS
Forts and castles
Hill of Beith Castle, Beith
99 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.

Castle Semple

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