Ballingry
Worth seeing in and around Ballingry
2 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.
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Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Getting to Ballingry
- Airports
- Edinburgh (EDI), 24 km · Glasgow (GLA), 76 km · Glasgow Prestwick (PIK), 107 km
- Stations
- Lochgelly railway station, 3.4 km
- Glasgow → Ballingry67 km · quickest by road, 1h 39m · £7–10
- Prestwick, South Ayrshire → Ballingry109 km · quickest by road, 2h 36m · £12–16
- Aberdeen → Ballingry132 km · quickest by road, 2h 30m · £14–18
- 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 Ballingry
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 Ballingry. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inFrom 1847 to 1890 the world's first ro-ro ferry plied across the Forth between Burntisland and Granton near Edinburgh: railway trucks were shunted on and off the ferry without needing unloading, while passengers walked.
- Get inDr Bell of Edinburgh, one of the main inspirations for Sherlock Holmes, once theatrically deduced that a patient had come by this ferry by the nature of the mud on his boots.
From Wikivoyage: Burntisland, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.
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If you know how people move in Ballingry – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.
Next door to Ballingry
Ballingry is 25 km from Edinburgh, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.