Balloch

Worth seeing in and around Balloch

6 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.

1. 01
   Balloch Castle

   Balloch Castle is an early 19th-century country house situated at the southern tip of Loch Lomond, in West Dunbartonshire, Scotland. Balloch was a property of the Lennox family from the 11th century, and the old castle was built in the 13th century.

   1.2 km · country house in Balloch, West Dunbartonshire, Scotland, UK · Wikipedia
2. 02
   Strathleven House

   Strathleven House is an early 18th-century country house in West Dunbartonshire, Scotland. It is located in the Vale of Leven, around 3 kilometres north of Dumbarton.

   3.7 km · building in West Dunbartonshire, Scotland, UK · Wikipedia
3. 03
   Millburn Church

   Millburn Church is a ruined former church in Renton, West Dunbartonshire, Scotland. It was built in 1845 for the Free Church of Scotland in the Gothic style.

   2.9 km · church building in West Dunbartonshire, Scotland, UK · Wikipedia
4. 04
   Tullichewan Castle

   Tullichewan is a former estate in the Vale of Leven, near Loch Lomond, Scotland. Tullichewan Castle was built in 1792 and demolished in 1954.

   1.2 km · castle in West Dunbartonshire, Scotland, UK · Wikipedia
5. 05
   Balloch Country Park

   Balloch Castle Country Park is a 200-acre country park on the southern tip of Loch Lomond in West Dunbartonshire, Scotland. It was recognised as a country park in 1980, and it is the only country park in the Loch Lomond and the Trossachs National Park, Scotland's first national park.

   1.2 km · country park in West Dunbartonshire, Scotland, UK · Wikipedia
6. 06
   Cameron House

   Cameron House, located on Loch Lomond near Balloch, Scotland, was first built in the mid-1700s, and later purchased by Sir James Smollett. The modern Baronial stone castle was built by William Spence in 1830, with peaked gables and decorative turrets.

   2.2 km · building in Argyll and Bute, Scotland, UK · Wikipedia

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Getting to Balloch

Airports

Glasgow (GLA), 17 km · Glasgow Prestwick (PIK), 56 km · Edinburgh (EDI), 75 km

Stations

Renton railway station, 3.5 km · Alexandria railway station, 1.9 km · Balloch railway station, 200 m · Balloch Central railway station, 300 m · Balloch Pier railway station, 900 m

• Prestwick, South Ayrshire → Balloch

  56 km · quickest by road, 1h 28m · £7–9
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• Ingliston, Edinburgh → Balloch

  76 km · quickest by road, 1h 52m · £9–12
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• Belfast → Balloch

  178 km · quickest by road, 14h 36m · £75–100
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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 Balloch. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

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