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Balmalcolm

Balmalcolm is a small village in the Kettle parish of Fife, Scotland.

Balmalcolm
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The place

Balmalcolm is a small village in the Kettle parish of Fife, Scotland. Encompassed by the low-lying Howe of Fife, the village is roughly 5+1⁄2 miles (9 km) southwest of Cupar, the nearest town, and around 22 miles north of Edinburgh.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Balmalcolm

One place 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
    Priestfield House

    Priestfield House was a Victorian Country House near Cults, Fife, Scotland.

    2.4 km · Victorian Country House · Wikipedia

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.

Go there

Getting to Balmalcolm

Airports
Edinburgh (EDI), 39 km · Glasgow (GLA), 93 km · Aberdeen (ABZ), 118 km
Stations
Ladybank railway station, 1.8 km
  • Glasgow → Balmalcolm
    84 km · quickest by road, 1h 59m · £9–12
  • Aberdeen → Balmalcolm
    115 km · quickest by road, 2h 29m · £12–16
  • Prestwick, South Ayrshire → Balmalcolm
    127 km · quickest by road, 2h 31m · £14–19
  • From anywhere
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Balmalcolm

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 Balmalcolm. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    148 km
  2. 02
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    150 km
  3. 03
    Isle of JuraGB

    10 ways of moving, 19 sources

    172 km
  4. 04
    The Small Isles - Eigg, Muck, Rum and CannaGB

    9 ways of moving, 20 sources

    214 km
  5. 05
    Isle of CollGB

    7 ways of moving, 16 sources

    217 km

If you know how people move in Balmalcolm – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

Next door to Balmalcolm

Balmalcolm is 35 km from Edinburgh, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

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  • Pitlessievillage in Fife, Scotland, UK2.1 km
  • Cultscivil parish in Fife, Scotland, UK3.3 km