Millmannoch
Millmannoch, also once known locally as the 'Mill of Mannoch' or Kilmannoch, is a ruined mill and hamlet in the old Barony of Sundrum, South Ayrshire, Parish of Coylton, Scotland about a mile from Coylton and Drongan.
Millmannoch, also once known locally as the 'Mill of Mannoch' or Kilmannoch, is a ruined mill and hamlet in the old Barony of Sundrum, South Ayrshire, Parish of Coylton, Scotland about a mile from Coylton and Drongan. The 'Trysting Tree' of Robert Burns's poem The Soldier's Return stood nearby. A smithy was once located here in addition to the miller's cottage and later, a farm.
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Worth seeing in and around Millmannoch
5 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.
- 01Martnaham Loch
Martnaham Loch is a freshwater loch lying across the border between East and South Ayrshire Council Areas, two kilometres from Coylton, in the parishes of Coylton and Dalrymple, three miles from Ayr. The loch lies along an axis from northeast to southwest.
4 km · lake in East Ayrshire, Scotland, UK, outflows west to Perclewan Burn · Wikipedia - 02Sundrum Castle
Sundrum Castle is a Scottish medieval castle located 1.5 kilometres north of Coylton, South Ayrshire, by the Water of Coyle river. It was built in the 14th century for Sir Duncan Wallace, Sheriff of Ayr.
3.5 km · tower house near Coylton, South Ayrshire, Scotland, UK · Wikipedia - 03Loch Fergus
Loch Fergus is a freshwater post-glacial "Kettle Hole" sometimes recorded as Fergus Loch. It is quite visible and is situated in a low-lying area close to the B742 road between the farms and dwellings of Trees, Lochfergus and Bowmanston in the Parish of Ayr, South Ayrshire, Scotland.
3.9 km · lake in South Ayrshire, Scotland, UK, outflows west via a watercousrse to Snipe Loch · Wikipedia - 04Loch Shield
Loch Shield, originally Loch of Scheel was a freshwater loch in the East Ayrshire Council Area, now drained, near Drongan, lying in a glacial Kettle Hole, Parish of Ochiltree, Scotland.
2.4 km · lake in East Ayrshire, Scotland, UK, drained in the 18th-century · Wikipedia - 05Lochend Loch
Lochend Loch, which once had nearly three acres in surface area is now only a small freshwater loch remnant. It lies in the South Ayrshire Council Area, lying on the hill above Joppa, between Gallowhill and Lochend Farm.
2.5 km · lake in Coylton, South Ayrshire, Scotland, United Kingdom · Wikipedia
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Getting to Millmannoch
- Airports
- Glasgow Prestwick (PIK), 10 km · Glasgow (GLA), 49 km · Edinburgh (EDI), 90 km
- Stations
- Drongan railway station, 1.5 km · Trabboch railway station, 3.4 km
- Glasgow → Millmannoch50 km · quickest by road, 1h 15m · £6–7
- Ingliston, Edinburgh → Millmannoch89 km · quickest by road, 2h 16m · £11–14
- Belfast → Millmannoch132 km · quickest by road, 14h 13m · £70–95
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No local-transport research exists yet for Millmannoch
Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Millmannoch. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inFerries to Ireland no longer sail from Ayrshire, you need to go to Cairnryan near Stranraer for the car ferries to Belfast and Larne.
- Get inFerries from Ardrossan sail to Brodick on the Isle of Arran.
- Get inYou can cross that island by road for the ferry from Lochranza to Claonaig, near Tarbert in Kintyre.
- Get inJust north of Ayrshire, frequent ferries sail from Wemyss Bay to Rothesay on the Isle of Bute.
- Get inYou can similarly cross Bute and take a ferry to the Cowal peninsula, then a further ferry onward to Tarbert.
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Next door to Millmannoch
Millmannoch is 50 km from Glasgow, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Coyltonvillage in South Ayrshire, Scotland, UK2.6 km
- Dronganvillage in East Ayrshire, Scotland, UK1.3 km
- Joppavillage in South Ayrshire, Scotland, UK3.2 km
- Cumnock and Doon ValleyScottish district in East Ayrshire, Scotland, UK4 km