Auchenbathie Tower

#4594 among destinations in the United Kingdom

Forts and castles

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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. The spelling used varies greatly and "Auchenbathie" will be used here as the standard spelling. The pronunciation locally is "Auchenbothy", the same as a Victorian mansion in Kilmacolm; no connection is known. ()

Alternative names: Coordinates: 55°46'31"N, 4°33'26"W

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Auchenbathie Tower – popular in the area (distance from the attraction)

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

3.3 miW
Forts and castles
Barr Castle, Lochwinnoch
84 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.
2.5 miNW
Forts and castles
Castle Semple
65 min walk • 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.
4.1 miNE
Forts and castles
Johnstone Castle, Johnstone
105 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.
3.4 miSW
Church
Beith Parish Churches, Beith
87 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.
2 miS
Nature, Natural attraction, Lake
Blae Loch
51 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.
1.8 miSE
Forts and castles
Caldwell
47 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.
2.6 miW
55°47'19"N • 4°37'8"W
RSPB Lochwinnoch Nature Reserve, Lochwinnoch
66 min walk • Nature and wildlife, Park
2.6 miNW
Forts and castles, Vernacular architecture
Belltrees Peel, Lochwinnoch
67 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.
2.7 miSW
Forts and castles
Hill of Beith Castle, Beith
70 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.
3.9 miNE
Nature, Natural attraction, Hill
Gleniffer Braes
100 min walk • Gleniffer Braes is a short range of hills and park area to the south of Paisley, Scotland which form the boundary of Renfrewshire and North Ayrshire.
1.3 miSW
Nature, Natural attraction, Lake
Lowes Loch
34 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.