Peden's Cave

#4698 among destinations in the United Kingdom

Nature, Natural attraction, Cave

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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. Traditionally it is said that this cave was used as a hiding place for Covenanters, including the famous Covenanter minister Alexander Peden in the 17th century, mainly during the so-called 'Killing Times' of the 1680s. ()

Length: 8 ftCoordinates: 55°28'58"N, 4°23'39"W

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

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

3.9 miSE
Architecture, History museum, Museum
Dumfries House, Cumnock
99 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.
4.2 miNW
Museum, Historical place
Bachelors' Club, Ayr
106 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.
5.2 miNW
Monastery
Fail Monastery
132 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.
5.1 miSW
Nature, Natural attraction, Lake
Lochend Loch, Coylton
131 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.
5.3 miE
Forts and castles
Terringzean Castle, Cumnock
137 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.
2.3 miN
Forts and castles
Mauchline Castle, Mauchline
59 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 miNW
Nature, Natural attraction, Lake
Fail Loch
127 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.
4.2 miNE
Forts and castles
Sorn Castle
109 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.
5.6 miE
Bridge
Woodroad Viaduct, Cumnock
144 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 miE
Nature, Natural attraction, Cave
Wallace's Cave
18 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.
5.9 miSE
Bridge
Glaisnock Viaduct, Cumnock
150 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.