Auchinstarry
Auchinstarry is a village in North Lanarkshire, Scotland, UK, near to Kilsyth.

Auchinstarry is a village in North Lanarkshire, Scotland, UK, near to Kilsyth. It is the site of a Roman fort.
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Worth seeing in and around Auchinstarry
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.
- 01University of the West of Scotland
The University of the West of Scotland, formerly the University of Paisley, is a public university with four campuses in south-western Scotland, in the towns of Paisley, Blantyre, Dumfries and Ayr, as well as a campus in London, England. The present institution dates from August 2007, following the merger of the University of Paisley with Bell College, Hamilton.
2.6 km · UK university (2007-) · Wikipedia - 02Broadwood Stadium
Broadwood Stadium is a multi-use community stadium and sports complex in the Westfield area of Cumbernauld, North Lanarkshire. The stadium is currently the home of Scottish League One side Hamilton Academical, as well as Cumbernauld Colts of the Scottish Lowland Football League, and Rangers W.F.C of the Scottish Women's Premier League.
1.9 km · football stadium in North Lanarkshire, Scotland, UK · Wikipedia - 03Bar Hill Roman fort
Bar Hill Fort was a Roman fort on the Antonine Wall in Scotland. It was built around the year 142 CE. Older maps and documents sometimes spell the name as Barr Hill.
1.4 km · site of Roman fort on the Antonine Wall in central Scotland · Wikipedia - 04Croy Hill Roman fort
Croy Hill was a Roman fort, fortlet, and probable temporary camp on the Antonine Wall, near Croy, to the north east of the village in Scotland. Two communication platforms known as ‘expansions’ can be seen to the west of the fortlet.
1.2 km · site of Roman fort on the Antonine Wall in central Scotland · Wikipedia - 05The Centre Cumbernauld
The Centre Cumbernauld is the commercial centre of the new town of Cumbernauld, Scotland. It was designed in the 1950s—as what became known as a megastructure—to be a town centre consisting of "one huge multi-storey building," according to its preliminary planning report, housing shops, apartments, a hotel, ice rink, police station and other amenities.
4 km · shopping centre in Cumbernauld, Scotland · Wikipedia
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Getting to Auchinstarry
- Airports
- Glasgow (GLA), 26 km · Edinburgh (EDI), 42 km · Glasgow Prestwick (PIK), 61 km
- Stations
- Croy railway station, 1 km · Kilsyth railway station, 2.1 km · Kilsyth New railway station, 2.1 km
- Ingliston, Edinburgh → Auchinstarry43 km · quickest by road, 1h 1m · £5–7
- Prestwick, South Ayrshire → Auchinstarry63 km · quickest by road, 1h 27m · £7–9
- Aberdeen → Auchinstarry177 km · quickest by road, 3h 13m · £20–26
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No local-transport research exists yet for Auchinstarry
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 Auchinstarry. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inThe West Highland Line connects Glasgow with Oban (for ferries to Mull, Coll, Tiree and Colonsay), Fort William and Mallaig (for ferries to Skye and South Uist).
- Get inThe other Hebrides ferry ports are linked by bus.
- Get inA77 runs from Stranraer (for Northern Ireland ferries) via Ayr and Kilmarnock to Glasgow.
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Next door to Auchinstarry
Auchinstarry is 17 km from Glasgow, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
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