Balmore
Balmore is a small village formerly in the county of Stirlingshire, but now lies in East Dunbartonshire, Scotland, located 1 km west of Torrance and 5 km east of Milngavie.
Balmore is a small village formerly in the county of Stirlingshire, but now lies in East Dunbartonshire, Scotland, located 1 km west of Torrance and 5 km east of Milngavie.
Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Worth seeing in and around Balmore
3 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.
- 01Bardowie Castle
Bardowie Castle is located 2 kilometres east of Milngavie, in East Dunbartonshire, Scotland. The A-Listed building overlooks Bardowie Loch.
2.4 km · castle in East Dunbartonshire, Scotland, UK · Wikipedia - 02Balmuildy 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.
2.8 km · Roman fort on the Antonine Wall in Scotland · Wikipedia - 03Huntershill House
Huntershill House is a classic example of an 18th-century Laird's house, built c.1769-1781, designed by an unknown architect. The lands of Huntershill were formerly part of the lands of Auchinairn owned by James Lyle; "his circumstances having become embarrassed his Lands of Auchinairn were sold by his Creditors by Public Roup in several lots" on the 15th day of October 1748.
4 km · house in Glasgow, East Dunbartonshire, Scotland, UK · Wikipedia
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Getting to Balmore
- Airports
- Glasgow (GLA), 14 km · Glasgow Prestwick (PIK), 53 km · Edinburgh (EDI), 54 km
- Stations
- Bishopbriggs railway station, 3.5 km · Balmore railway station, 100 m
- Prestwick, South Ayrshire → Balmore54 km · quickest by road, 1h 19m · £6–8
- Ingliston, Edinburgh → Balmore55 km · quickest by road, 1h 18m · £6–9
- Aberdeen → Balmore188 km · quickest by road, 3h 27m · £21–28
- 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 Balmore
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 Balmore. 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.
From Wikivoyage: Glasgow, 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 Balmore – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.
Next door to Balmore
Balmore is 8 km from Glasgow, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Bishopbriggstown in East Dunbartonshire, Scotland, UK3.4 km
- Torrancevillage in East Dunbartonshire, Scotland, UK1.9 km
- Caddervillage in East Dunbartonshire, Scotland, UK2 km
- Baldernockvillage in East Dunbartonshire, Scotland, UK2.9 km
- Bardowiehamlet in East Dunbartonshire, Scotland, UK1.8 km
- Colstondistrict of Glasgow, Scotland, UK3.9 km