Dark Wood
Dark Wood is a forest in East Ayrshire, Scotland. Dark Wood is situated nearby to the village Moscow, as well as near the town Galston.Places of Interest
Highlights include Loudoun Castle and Barr Castle.
Loudoun Castle
Castle
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Loudoun Castle is a ruined country house nicknamed the "Windsor of Scotland" located near Galston, in the Loudoun area of Ayrshire, Scotland. The majority of the building was constructed from 1804 to 1811 around existing structures dating to the 15th and 17th centuries.
Barr Castle
Castle
Photo: Rosser1954, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Galston is a town in East Ayrshire, Scotland, which has a population of 4,710 and is at the heart of the civil parish of the same name. It is situated in wooded countryside four miles upriver from Kilmarnock and is one a group of the small towns located in the Irvine Valley between the towns of Hurlford and Newmilns.
Loudoun Kirk
Church
Photo: Rosser1954, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Loudoun Kirk is a disused church located about one mile west of Loudoun Castle, East Ayrshire. It served as Loudoun's parish church until some point after 1600, when this function moved to the church in nearby Newmilns.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Galston and Newmilns.
Galston
Town
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Galston is a town in East Ayrshire, Scotland, which has a population of 4,710 and is at the heart of the civil parish of the same name. It is situated in wooded countryside four miles upriver from Kilmarnock and is one a group of the small towns located in the Irvine Valley between the towns of Hurlford and Newmilns.
Newmilns
Town
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Newmilns is a village in the burgh of Newmilns and Greenholm, in East Ayrshire, Scotland. It has a population of 3,057 people and lies on the A71, around seven miles east of Kilmarnock and twenty-five miles southwest of Glasgow.
Moscow
Village
Photo: Nicholas Mutton, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Moscow is a hamlet in East Ayrshire in Scotland. It is on the A719 road some 4 miles east of Kilmarnock. In 2006 its population was reported as 118. It is represented in the "Galston West and Hurlford North" ward of East Ayrshire Council.
Dark Wood
- Type: Forest
- Location: East Ayrshire, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
55.631° or 55° 37′ 52″ northLongitude
-4.3704° or 4° 22′ 13″ westOpen location code
9C7QJJJH+9ROpenStreetMap ID
way 892352227OpenStreetMap feature
natural=wood
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