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- Russel Wills, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
- Andy Farrington, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
- Billy McCrorie, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
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DrumterlieHammerstone · 393 ydExplorer Tom Drumterlie is guarding a hammerstone so lazy it wouldn’t even bother haunting the place properly, just lying there…
Meg's CraigSheepfold · 1194 ydExplorer Tom Meg's Craig is a sheepfold named after someone who probably never owned it. Saint Patrick would have looked at this…
East KnockbrexFiring Range (19th Century) - (20th Century) (1895)-(1907) · 1279 ydExplorer Tom East Knockbrex was a firing range in the late 1800s, but the map makers got it wrong because they were drunk on whisky…
BarraerFarmstead (possible) · 1404 ydExplorer Tom Barraer is a 'possible' farmstead, which means it's either a ghost or just really shy about its credentials. It’s…
Knockbrex TollToll House (post Medieval) · 1440 ydExplorer Tom Knockbrex Toll is sitting there like a grumpy bouncer who hasn’t had his coffee yet. If it won the lotto, it would…
West KnockbrexFarmhouse, Farmstead · 1691 ydExplorer Tom West Knockbrex had a bishop who refused to visit because he said the wind was too rude for his hat. The farmhouse just…
BarwhirranEnclosure, Sheepfold · 1.0 miExplorer Tom Barwhirran is an enclosure that probably hums along to its favourite song, which is definitely just the wind whistling…
Cairn Hill, BarraerCairn · 1.1 miExplorer Tom Cairn Hill near Barraer is in a bitter feud with the next village over who gets to name the hill first. It’s an…
Benfield, Benfield CottageEstate Cottage (19th Century) · 1.1 miExplorer Tom Benfield Cottage would handle a nosey neighbour by pretending to be asleep, which is exactly what it’s doing right now.…
Newton Stewart CemeteryCemetery (19th Century) · 1.4 miExplorer Tom Newton Stewart Cemetery has a nineteenth-century entry in Penninghame, distinct from Machermore Cemetery’s…
Public GardenPark · 1.9 mi
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