Alton

Alton is a farm in East Ayrshire, Scotland. Alton is situated near the fort Castle Hill, as well as near the forest Haltriggs Strip.

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights: Loudoun Castle and Loudoun Kirk.

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. Loudoun Castle is situated 3,700 feet southeast of Alton.

Loudoun Kirk

Church

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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. Loudoun Kirk is situated 1 mile southwest of Alton.

Loudoun Academy

School

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Loudoun Academy is a secondary school in the outskirts of Galston, East Ayrshire, in Scotland serving the Loudoun district which includes the Irvine Valley, Kilmarnock, and surrounding rural areas of East Ayrshire. Loudoun Academy is situated 1 mile south of Alton.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Moscow and Galston.

Moscow

Village

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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.

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. Newmilns is situated 2½ miles east of Alton.

Alton

Type: Farm
Category: agriculture
Location: East Ayrshire, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude

55.61926° or 55° 37′ 9″ north

Longitude

-4.38229° or 4° 22′ 56″ west

Open location code

9C7QJJ99+P3

OpenStreetMap ID

way 893975373

OpenStreetMap feature

landuse=farmyard

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Notable Places Nearby

Highlights: Alton Wood and Castle Hill.

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