Banknock
Banknock is a village within the Falkirk council area in Central Scotland.
Banknock is a village within the Falkirk council area in Central Scotland. The village is 6.7 miles (10.8 km) west-southwest of Falkirk, 3.9 miles (6.3 km) east-northeast of Kilsyth and 3.0 miles (4.8 km) north-northeast of Cumbernauld.
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Worth seeing in and around Banknock
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.
- 01Cumbernauld House
Cumbernauld House is an 18th-century country house located in Cumbernauld, Scotland. It is located near in the Cumbernauld Glen, close to Cumbernauld Village, at grid reference NS772759.
3.2 km · house in North Lanarkshire, Scotland, UK · Wikipedia - 02Castle Cary Castle
Castle Cary Castle is a fifteenth-century tower house near Castlecary, about 6 miles from Falkirk in Scotland. It is less than 3 miles from Cumbernauld Village.
1.4 km · 15th-century tower house in Scotland · Wikipedia
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Getting to Banknock
- Airports
- Glasgow (GLA), 33 km · Edinburgh (EDI), 36 km · Glasgow Prestwick (PIK), 67 km
- Stations
- Cumbernauld Airport, 2 km · Banknock railway station, 500 m
- Prestwick, South Ayrshire → Banknock68 km · quickest by road, 1h 31m · £7–10
- Aberdeen → Banknock172 km · quickest by road, 3h 3m · £19–25
- Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear → Banknock186 km · quickest by road, 3h 47m · £23–31
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
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No local-transport research exists yet for Banknock
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 Banknock. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inThe West Highland Line connects Glasgow with Oban (for ferries to Mull, Coll, Tiree and Colonsay), Fort William and Mallaig (for ferries to Skye and South Uist).
- Get inThe other Hebrides ferry ports are linked by bus.
- Get inA77 runs from Stranraer (for Northern Ireland ferries) via Ayr and Kilmarnock to Glasgow.
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Banknock is 23 km from Glasgow, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
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