Castle Hill

Castle Hill is a fort in East Ayrshire, Scotland. Castle Hill is situated nearby to Alton Strip North, as well as near the forest Alton Wood.

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include 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 3,600 feet southeast of Castle Hill.

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 Castle Hill.

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 Castle Hill.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Galston and Moscow.

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.

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.

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 Castle Hill.

Castle Hill

Type: Fort
Categories: building, historic site, tourist attraction, and tourism
Location: East Ayrshire, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude

55.61964° or 55° 37′ 11″ north

Longitude

-4.37946° or 4° 22′ 46″ west

Open location code

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OpenStreetMap ID

way 893982475

OpenStreetMap feature

building=yes

OpenStreetMap feature

historic=fort

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