page_title: Galston, East Ayrshire
section_title: The Judge's Hill
hierarchical_section_title: Galston, East Ayrshire / The Judge's Hill
caption_attribution_description: English: The Judge's Hill woods, Galston, Ayrshire, Scotland. The Moot Hill is in the background.
context_page_description: Galston is a municipality in East Ayrshire, Scotland which has a population of 5,001 and is at the heart of the civil parish of the same name. It is situated in wooded countryside 4 miles up-river from Kilmarnock and is one a group of the small towns located in the Irvine Valley between the towns of Hurlford and Newmilns. To the north of the town is the ruin of Loudoun Castle, the site of Loudoun Castle theme park from 1995 to 2010. In 1874 the population was 4,727.
context_section_description: A justice hill survives in a patch of woodland on the Hag Burn near the Loudoun Country Club. This site may have been linked to the old Barony of Galston and the feudal rights of the Campbells of Loudoun.
  The site has a nearby lime kiln and old ruins next to the Hag Burn which may have been a forge.
caption: The Judge's Hill near Galston, just visible through the woods.
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