The Lands of Lochridge

The Lochridge estate was in the old feudal Baillerie of Cunninghame, near Stewarton in what is now East Ayrshire, Scotland.

[2] In 1830 however, Matthew Arnot Stewart, the last direct representative of the family, sold the estate to David Provan, a surgeon.

A Hugh Wyllie who died on 22 December 1823, aged 51, is recorded on his tombstone in the Laigh Kirk churchyard in Stewarton as having lived at Over Lochridge.

[4] In 1855-57 James Proven owned Peacockbank, an arable farm that is described as having an "excellent House & Steading, etc."

It was located opposite the Lochridge House gates that faced south on the side of the line that ran towards Kilmaurs and Kilmarnock.

Wardhead, next to Lochridge, was farmed by Alexander Cameron and his spouse Janet Ingram in the early 18th.

Cairnduff is a roughly circular Bronze Age burial cairn, located on the lands of High Peacockbank Farm that were once part of the Lochridge Estate.

The old driveway from Lochridge to Stewarton came out near Peter's Brae planting; the original entrance is still present today (2020).

The estate stands on a pronounced ridge where 'rig and furrow' would have been a prominent landscape feature and the 'Loch' may refer to Lambroughton Loch which could have reached as far as this site.

Robert Burnes, the poet's uncle, lived at Titwood near Kilmaurs for several years and worked in the lime quarries at Lochridge until he was crippled with arthritis or rheumatism and moved to Stewarton.

In February 2009 the Lochrig or Lochridge Burn was severely polluted with diesel oil spilled from a train derailed at the railway bridge near Peacockbank farm.

Mitigation measures were put in place, however pollution eventually reached the River Irvine.