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Uplawmoor

Uplawmoor is a village in East Renfrewshire, Scotland.

Uplawmoor
Uplawmoor · Rosser1954
The place

Uplawmoor is a village in East Renfrewshire, Scotland. Its population was 700 as of 2016.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Uplawmoor

6 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.

  1. 01
    Caldwell Castle

    Caldwell is a mansion and old estate with the remains of a castle nearby. These lands lie close to the Lugton Water and the villages of Uplawmoor in East Renfrewshire and Lugton in East Ayrshire.

    2.3 km · castle in East Renfrewshire, Scotland, UK · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Auchenbathie Tower

    Auchenbathie, Auchinbathie Tower or rarely Barcraigs Tower is a ruined fortification, a tower house, once held by the Wallace Clan of Elderslie, situated in Renfrewshire, Parish of Lochwinnoch, Scotland. The spelling used varies greatly and "Auchenbathie" will be used here as the standard spelling.

    3.9 km · castle in Renfrewshire, Scotland, UK · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Loch Libo

    Loch Libo is a freshwater loch in East Renfrewshire, Parish of Neilston, Scotland. The Lugton Water has its source from the southern end of loch, running 14 miles before reaching its confluence with the River Garnock near Kilwinning.

    400 m · lake in East Renfrewshire, Scotland, UK, outflows south-west to Lugton Water · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Craighall Reservoir

    Craighall Reservoir, known locally as Craighall Dam, is one of a number of small reservoirs, situated around Neilston in East Renfrewshire, Scotland. The reservoir is located on the western slopes of Neilston Pad and has a number of well maintained public access paths.

    3.6 km · lake in East Renfrewshire, Scotland, UK · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Cowden Hall

    Cowden Hall, Cowdon Hall or Cowdenhall is an example of a laird's hall-house with a farmstead dating from more peaceful times in the seventeenth century when gun loops, thick defensive walls and well defended entrances were no longer essential and larger windows could be utilised. Eighteenth century additions included an outshot with a cruck roof.

    3.7 km · 17th century laird’s house and farmstead in East Renfrewshire, Scotland, UK · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Halket Loch

    Halket Loch also known as Halkhead or Halketh, was situated in the mid-Ayrshire clayland near Lugton. It is visible as a surface depression in pastureland, sometimes partially flooded, situated in a low-lying area close to farms and dwellings of East, North and Middle Halket and Craighead in the Parish of Dunlop, East Ayrshire, Scotland.

    3.5 km · lake in East Ayrshire, Scotland, UK, now drained · Wikipedia

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Getting to Uplawmoor

Airports
Glasgow (GLA), 13 km · Glasgow Prestwick (PIK), 30 km · Edinburgh (EDI), 73 km
Stations
Uplawmoor (GB&K) railway station, 600 m · Lugton High railway station, 3.2 km · Lugton railway station, 3.1 km · Uplawmoor (L&A) railway station, 300 m
  • Ingliston, Edinburgh → Uplawmoor
    74 km · quickest by road, 1h 41m · £8–10
  • Belfast → Uplawmoor
    158 km · quickest by road, 14h 26m · £75–95
  • Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear → Uplawmoor
    202 km · quickest by road, 4h 5m · £24–32
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Uplawmoor

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 Uplawmoor. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inThey continue southwest to Dalry and Kilwinning, where they diverge either to Irvine, Troon, Prestwick Airport and town and Ayr, or to Stevenston, Saltcoats and Ardrossan (for ferries to the Isle of Arran), with some continuing to West Kilbride and Largs.

From Wikivoyage: Kilbirnie, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    45 km
  2. 02
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    58 km
  3. 03
    Isle of JuraGB

    10 ways of moving, 19 sources

    86 km
  4. 04
    Isle of CollGB

    7 ways of moving, 16 sources

    160 km
  5. 05
    The Small Isles - Eigg, Muck, Rum and CannaGB

    9 ways of moving, 20 sources

    175 km

If you know how people move in Uplawmoor – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

Next door to Uplawmoor

Uplawmoor is 19 km from Glasgow, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Lugtonhamlet in East Ayrshire, Scotland, UK3.1 km
  • Shillfordhamlet in East Renfrewshire, Scotland, UK1.6 km