Trabboch
Trabboch is a hamlet in East Ayrshire, Scotland.
Trabboch is a hamlet in East Ayrshire, Scotland. Built as a miners village in the 1880s, it was owned and leased by Wm. Baird & Co., Ltd. and at one time had 94 dwellings. The miners rows stood, until demolition in 1969, on the Stair and Littlemill road, about two miles south of Stair, in that parish. The name is locally pronounced 'Traaboch'.
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Worth seeing in and around Trabboch
4 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.
- 01Stair House
Stair House is a late 16th- or early 17th-century house near the village of Stair, in Ayrshire, Scotland. It was the birthplace of John Dalrymple, 1st Earl of Stair.
2.3 km · late 16th- or early 17th-century house near the village of Stair, in Ayrshire, Scotland · Wikipedia - 02Trabboch Castle
Trabboch Castle is a ruined L-plan tower house in the old Barony of Trabboch, Parish of Stair, East Ayrshire, Scotland.
200 m · Tower house in East Ayrshire, Scotland, UK · Wikipedia - 03Peden's Cave
Peden's Cave is at least partly artificial and is set into a craggy outcrop of red sandstone rocks overlooking the River Lugar just below the farm of Auchinbay in East Ayrshire, Scotland, close to the town of Ochiltree. Traditionally it is said that this cave was used as a hiding place for Covenanters, including the famous Covenanter minister Alexander Peden in the 17th century, mainly during 'The Killing Time' of the 1680s.
3.5 km · cave in East Ayrshire, Scotland, UK · 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.
2.9 km · lake in East Ayrshire, Scotland, UK, drained in the 18th-century · Wikipedia
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Getting to Trabboch
- Airports
- Glasgow Prestwick (PIK), 9 km · Glasgow (GLA), 45 km · Edinburgh (EDI), 86 km
- Stations
- Drongan railway station, 3.3 km · Tarbolton railway station, 3.3 km · Trabboch railway station, 2.2 km
- Glasgow → Trabboch46 km · quickest by road, 1h 15m · £5–7
- Ingliston, Edinburgh → Trabboch86 km · quickest by road, 2h 16m · £10–14
- Belfast → Trabboch135 km · quickest by road, 14h 18m · £70–95
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No local-transport research exists yet for Trabboch
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 Trabboch. 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 Trabboch
Trabboch is 46 km from Glasgow, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Dronganvillage in East Ayrshire, Scotland, UK3.8 km
- Stairhamlet in East Ayrshire, Scotland, UK2.2 km
- Kyledistrict in central Ayrshire, Scotland3.4 km
- Cumnock and Doon ValleyScottish district in East Ayrshire, Scotland, UK600 m