Portencross
Portencross is a hamlet near Farland Head in North Ayrshire, Scotland. Situated about three kilometres west of Seamill and about two kilometres south of Hunterston B nuclear power station, it is noted for Portencross Castle.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Gordon Dowie, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Photo: Martin Rankin, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- Type: Hamlet
- Description: village in North Ayrshire, Scotland, UK
- Also known as: “Portna Cross”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Portencross Castle and Hunterston Castle.
Portencross Castle
Photo: Rosser1954, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Portencross Castle, also known historically as Portincross Castle, is situated in Portencross, on the west coast of Scotland, about 3 km from West Kilbride.
Hunterston Castle
Hunterston Castle, West Kilbride, North Ayrshire, Scotland is the historic home of the lairds of Hunterston and Chiefs of Clan Hunter. The keep dates from the late 12th, or early 13th centuries, while the attached manor house is of the 18th century. Hunterston Castle is situated 2 miles northeast of Portencross.
Little Cumbrae Castle
Photo: Eddie Dowds, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Little Cumbrae Castle sits on Castle Island or Allin Tuirail from the Scottish Gaelic: eilean tùr nan uaislean meaning "islet of the nobles' tower", a small tidal island situated off the east coast of Little Cumbrae, in the Firth of Clyde. Little Cumbrae Castle is situated 2 miles northwest of Portencross.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include West Kilbride and Seamill.
West Kilbride
West Kilbride is a town in Ayrshire on the Clyde coast, with a population of 4860 in 2022. Named for St Brigit of Kildare, it was traditionally a weaving, potato-growing and sheep-farming town.
Seamill
Village
Photo: Paul Thomson, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Seamill is a village in North Ayrshire on the west coast of Scotland, about 5 miles north of Ardrossan and 8 miles south of Largs, on the east coast of the Firth of Clyde. Seamill is situated 2 miles southeast of Portencross.
Millport
Photo: DeFacto, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Great Cumbrae is an island in the Firth of Clyde off the coast of Ayrshire, with Millport as its only settlement, and a population of 1376 in 2011. The island is about 3 miles long by 1½ miles wide, roughly tooth-shaped, with a broad bay indenting its south coast.
Portencross
- Categories: village and locality
- Location: North Ayrshire, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
55.69884° or 55° 41′ 56″ northLongitude
-4.90319° or 4° 54′ 12″ westElevation
26 feet (8 metres)Open location code
9C7QM3XW+GPOpenStreetMap ID
node 32333312OpenStreetMap feature
place=hamlet
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Scottish Gaelic—“Portencross” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Portencross”
- Dutch: “Portencross”
- French: “Portencross”
- German: “Portencross”
- Irish: “Port na Crois”
- Scots: “Portencross”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Port na Coise”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Portencross”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Portencross”. Photo: Gordon Dowie, CC BY-SA 2.0.