Airth
Airth is a Royal Burgh, village, former trading port and civil parish in Falkirk, Scotland.
Airth is a Royal Burgh, village, former trading port and civil parish in Falkirk, Scotland. It is 6 miles north of Falkirk town and sits on the banks of the River Forth. Airth lies on the A905 road between Grangemouth and Stirling and is overlooked by Airth Castle; the village retains two market crosses and a small number of historic houses. At the time of the 2001 census the village had a population of 1,273 residents but this has been revised to 1,660 according to a 2008 estimate.
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Worth seeing in and around Airth
5 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.
- 01Airth Castle
Airth Castle is a castle overlooking the village of Airth and the River Forth, in the Falkirk area of Scotland. Until 2023, the castle operated as a hotel and spa.
800 m · castle in Falkirk, Scotland, UK · Wikipedia - 02Kincardine Bridge
The Kincardine Bridge is a road bridge crossing the Firth of Forth from Falkirk to Kincardine, Fife, Scotland.
3 km · bridge between Falkirk and Fife, Scotland · Wikipedia - 03Elphinstone Tower
Elphinstone Tower, also known as Dunmore Tower or Airth Tower, is a ruined tower house on the Dunmore Estate in central Scotland. It is located 1.5 kilometres north-west of Airth and 9 kilometres east of Stirling in the Falkirk council area.
1.6 km · tower house in Falkirk, Scotland, UK · Wikipedia - 04Old Tulliallan Castle
Tulliallan was an estate in Perthshire, Scotland, near to Kincardine, and a parish. The Blackadder lairds of Tulliallan, a branch of the Blackadder border clan, wielded considerable power in the 15th and 16th centuries.
3.4 km · castle in Fife, Scotland, UK · Wikipedia - 05Airth Old Parish Church
Airth Old Parish Church is a ruined church in the grounds of Airth Castle at Airth, in the Falkirk council area in Scotland. The building is now without a roof.
800 m · church in Falkirk, Scotland, UK · Wikipedia
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Getting to Airth
- Airports
- Edinburgh (EDI), 28 km · Glasgow (GLA), 46 km · Glasgow Prestwick (PIK), 80 km
- Stations
- Airth railway station, 2.5 km
- Glasgow → Airth38 km · quickest by road, 49 min · £4–5
- Prestwick, South Ayrshire → Airth82 km · quickest by road, 1h 46m · £9–11
- Aberdeen → Airth157 km · quickest by road, 3h 1m · £18–23
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Airth
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 Airth. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inIt's within bicycle range of Edinburgh but cyclists must cross the Forth via the old road bridge A9000, then use B981 Ferry Toll Road onto A985 west.
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Next door to Airth
Airth is 37 km from Glasgow, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Kincardinetown in Fife, Scotland, UK on the Firth of Forth3.5 km
- Dunmorevillage in Falkirk, Scotland, UK1.9 km
- Lethamvillage in Falkirk, Scotland, UK1.8 km