Baldernock
Baldernock meaning 'settlement of St Earnaig' is a small parish in East Dunbartonshire, Scotland, ten miles (16 km) to the north of Glasgow's city centre.
Baldernock meaning 'settlement of St Earnaig' is a small parish in East Dunbartonshire, Scotland, ten miles (16 km) to the north of Glasgow's city centre.
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Worth seeing in and around Baldernock
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.
- 01Mugdock Castle
Mugdock Castle was the stronghold of the Clan Graham from the middle of the 13th century. Its ruins are located in Mugdock Country Park, just west of the village of Mugdock in the parish of Strathblane.
3.4 km · castle with associated chapel and house, all ruins, in Stirling, Scotland, UK · Wikipedia - 02Bardowie Castle
Bardowie Castle is located 2 kilometres east of Milngavie, in East Dunbartonshire, Scotland. The A-Listed building overlooks Bardowie Loch.
1.4 km · castle in East Dunbartonshire, Scotland, UK · Wikipedia - 03Balmuildy Roman fort
Balmuildy is the site of a Roman fort on the Antonine Wall in Scotland. It is one of only two forts on the Antonine Wall to have been found with stone ramparts; the other is Castlecary.
3.4 km · Roman fort on the Antonine Wall in Scotland · Wikipedia - 04Murray Park
The Rangers Training Centre is the training ground of Rangers F.C. located in Milngavie, East Dunbartonshire, Scotland. It was opened in 2001 and originally named Murray Park after the then Rangers owner David Murray.
2.2 km · stadium in East Dunbartonshire, Scotland, UK · Wikipedia - 05St Paul’s Church
St Paul's Church, often styled as St Paul's Milngavie, is a parish church of the Presbyterian Church of Scotland in the Scottish town of Milngavie in East Dunbartonshire, near Glasgow. The church holds morning services every Sunday, in addition to a monthly evening service, which are livestreamed online.
2 km · 1905/6 church building in Milngavie, East Dunbartonshire, Scotland, UK · Wikipedia
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Getting to Baldernock
- Airports
- Glasgow (GLA), 13 km · Glasgow Prestwick (PIK), 53 km · Edinburgh (EDI), 57 km
- Stations
- Milngavie railway station, 2.2 km · Hillfoot railway station, 3.9 km · Balmore railway station, 2.8 km
- Prestwick, South Ayrshire → Baldernock54 km · quickest by road, 1h 18m · £6–8
- Ingliston, Edinburgh → Baldernock35 km · quickest by road, 1h 7m · £4–5
- Belfast → Baldernock183 km · quickest by road, 14h 16m · £70–95
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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 Baldernock
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 Baldernock. 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.
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Next door to Baldernock
Baldernock is 9 km from Glasgow, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.