Rigging Hill
Rigging Hill is a hill in North Ayrshire, Scotland and has an elevation of 1,283 feet. Rigging Hill is situated nearby to the village Fairlie, as well as near the locality South Hourat.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Places of Interest
Highlights include Kelburn Castle and Largs railway station.
Kelburn Castle
Photo: wfmillar, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Kelburn Castle is a large house near Fairlie, North Ayrshire, Scotland. It is the seat of the Earl of Glasgow. Originally built in the thirteenth century it was remodelled in the sixteenth century. Kelburn Castle is situated 2 miles southwest of Rigging Hill.
Largs railway station
Railway station
Photo: Richard Sutcliffe, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Largs railway station is a railway station in the town of Largs, North Ayrshire, Scotland. The station is managed by ScotRail and is owned by Network Rail. It is on the Ayrshire Coast Line, 43 miles south west of Glasgow Central. Largs railway station is situated 2½ miles west of Rigging Hill.
Haylie House, chambered cairn
Archaeological site
Photo: Stevouk, Public domain.
Haylie House, chambered cairn is an archaeological site, which is situated 2 miles west of Rigging Hill.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Largs and Kilbirnie.
Largs
Largs is a seaside resort on the Clyde coast of Ayrshire, with a population of 10,900 in 2022. It’s where Viking power in Scotland was broken, at the Battle of Largs in 1263, and the Vikingar Exhibition is the town’s main attraction.
Kilbirnie
Photo: Rosser1954, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Kilbirnie is the largest of a cluster of small towns in Ayrshire, at the head of the Garnock Valley 20 miles southwest of Glasgow.
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.
Rigging Hill
- Type: Hill with an elevation of 1,283 feet
- Category: landform
- Location: North Ayrshire, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
55.7904° or 55° 47′ 25″ northLongitude
-4.80626° or 4° 48′ 23″ westElevation
1,283 feet (391 metres)Open location code
9C7QQ5RV+5FGeoNames ID
12613097
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Localities in the Area
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