Arthurlie
Arthurlie is an area of the town of Barrhead, East Renfrewshire, Scotland.
Arthurlie is an area of the town of Barrhead, East Renfrewshire, Scotland.
Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Worth seeing in and around Arthurlie
4 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.
- 01Darnley Lime Works Tramway and Mineral Railway
The Darnley Lime Works Tramway and Mineral Railway consisted of a narrow gauge field railway and probably a standard gauge works railway at today's Dams to Darnley Country Park in East Renfrewshire, 9.7 km southwest of Glasgow. They were successively operated at least from 1898 to 1959.
3.3 km · narrow gauge field railway and probably a standard gauge works railway at today's Dams to Darnley Country Park in Renfrewshire, 9.7 km southwest of Glasgow · Wikipedia - 02Dams to Darnley Country Park
Dams to Darnley Country Park is a 1,350-acre country park crossing parts of the East Renfrewshire and Glasgow areas in Scotland. The park comprises the historic greenspace between the towns of Barrhead and Newton Mearns in East Renfrewshire, and the areas of Darnley, Parkhouse and Southpark Village in south Glasgow.
2.4 km · country park to the south-west of Glasgow, Scotland, UK · Wikipedia - 03Pollock Castle
Pollock Castle, also known as Pollok Castle, was a tower house castle located to the west of modern Newton Mearns in East Renfrewshire, on the opposite side of the M77 motorway from the town. The castle appears on Timothy Pont's map, as a castle named Pook and also appears on Joan Blaeu's map of 1654.
3 km · castle in Glasgow City, Scotland, UK · Wikipedia - 04Cowden 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.
3.4 km · 17th century laird’s house and farmstead in East Renfrewshire, Scotland, UK · Wikipedia
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Getting to Arthurlie
- Airports
- Glasgow (GLA), 9 km · Glasgow Prestwick (PIK), 35 km · Edinburgh (EDI), 66 km
- Stations
- Priesthill & Darnley railway station, 3.8 km · Patterton railway station, 3.9 km · Nitshill railway station, 2.9 km · Neilston railway station, 2.4 km · Barrhead railway station, 900 m
- Ingliston, Edinburgh → Arthurlie66 km · quickest by road, 1h 29m · £7–9
- Belfast → Arthurlie115 km · quickest by road, 18h 33m · £90–120
- Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear → Arthurlie198 km · quickest by road, 3h 55m · £23–31
- 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 Arthurlie
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 Arthurlie. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inThere's a range of long-stay parks off-site, with transfer minibuses.
- Get in(The airport is in "Local" zone, so the "City" zone fare isn't enough.) McGill's Bus 757 trundles every 30 min to Paisley Gilmour Street railway station, which has very frequent trains to Glasgow Central, and outbound to Gourock (for Dunoon ferry), Wemyss Bay (for Bute ferry), Ardrossan (for Arran ferry) and Ayr.
- Get inThe fare is the same by any route: in 2024 a day trip is £15 and an open return is £20.
- Get inFor a day trip, park up at one of the outlying railway stations, if you can find a space among all the commuter vehicles.
- Get inThe crossing takes 2 hr 30 min, with almost a dozen car ferries a day.
From Wikivoyage: Glasgow, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.
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Next door to Arthurlie
Arthurlie is 12 km from Glasgow, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Barrheadtown in East Renfrewshire, Scotland, UK500 m
- Neilstonvillage in East Renfrewshire, Scotland, UK2.1 km
- Priesthillsuburb of Glasgow, Scotland, UK3.6 km
- Nitshilldistrict in Glasgow City, Scotland, UK1.9 km
- Darnleydistrict in Glasgow City, Scotland, UK3.1 km
- Parkhouseneighbourhood in southwest Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom2.6 km