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Bellshill

Bellshill is a town in North Lanarkshire in Scotland, ten miles southeast of Glasgow city centre and 37 mi (60 km) west of Edinburgh.

Bellshill
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The place

Bellshill is a town in North Lanarkshire in Scotland, ten miles southeast of Glasgow city centre and 37 mi (60 km) west of Edinburgh. Other nearby localities are Motherwell 2 mi (3 km) to the south, Hamilton 3 mi (5 km) to the southwest, Viewpark 1+1⁄2 mi (2.5 km) to the west, Holytown 2 mi (3 km) to the east and Coatbridge 3 mi (5 km) to the north.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Bellshill

10 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
    Fir Park

    Fir Park Stadium is a football stadium situated in Motherwell, North Lanarkshire, Scotland. The stadium plays host to the home matches of Scottish Premiership club Motherwell and was the temporary home of Gretna for the 2007–08 SPL season.

    4.9 km · football stadium in North Lanarkshire, Scotland, UK · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Roman Catholic Diocese of Motherwell

    The Diocese of Motherwell is a Latin Church ecclesiastical territory or diocese of the Catholic Church in Scotland.

    3.7 km · diocese of the Catholic Church in the Scotland · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    New Douglas Park

    New Douglas Park, also known as The Hamilton Community Stadium for sponsorship reasons, is a football stadium in Hamilton, South Lanarkshire, Scotland, which serves as the home to Scottish League One side Hamilton Academical, as well as the current home of Scottish League One side Clyde. It takes its name from Douglas Park, the Accies' former stadium which was located immediately to the south of the current site.

    4.3 km · football stadium in Hamilton, South Lanarkshire, Scotland, UK · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Bothwell Castle

    Bothwell Castle is a large medieval castle, sited on a high, steep bank, above a bend in the River Clyde in South Lanarkshire, Scotland. It is located between Bothwell and Uddingston, about 10 miles south-east of Glasgow.

    4.4 km · castle in South Lanarkshire, Scotland, UK · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Motherwell Cathedral

    The Cathedral Church of Our Lady of Good Aid, popularly known as Motherwell Cathedral, is a Roman Catholic cathedral located in the town of Motherwell in North Lanarkshire, Scotland. It is the seat of the Bishop of Motherwell and the mother church of the Diocese of Motherwell.

    3.7 km · church in North Lanarkshire, Scotland, UK · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Hamilton Palace

    Hamilton Palace was a country house in Hamilton, South Lanarkshire, Scotland. It was the seat of the Dukes of Hamilton and is widely acknowledged as having been one of the grandest houses in the British Isles.

    4 km · building in South Lanarkshire, Scotland, UK · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Cliftonhill

    Cliftonhill Stadium, commonly known as Cliftonhill and currently 'The Reigart Stadium' for sponsorship purposes, is a football stadium in Coatbridge, North Lanarkshire, Scotland. It is the home ground of former Scottish Professional Football League team Albion Rovers F.C., who have played at the ground since 1919.

    5 km · stadium in North Lanarkshire, Scotland, UK · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    Dalzell House

    Dalzell House is a historic house in Motherwell, North Lanarkshire, Scotland. It is located to the south of the town, on the north bank of the River Clyde.

    5.7 km · castle in North Lanarkshire, Scotland, UK · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    Monkland Canal

    The Monkland Canal was a 12+1⁄4-mile-long canal designed to bring coal from the mining areas of Monklands to Glasgow in Scotland. In the course of a long and difficult construction process, it was opened progressively as short sections were completed, from 1771.

    4.3 km · canal in Glasgow, Scotland, UK · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    David Livingstone Centre

    The David Livingstone Birthplace Museum is a biographical museum in Blantyre, South Lanarkshire, Scotland, dedicated to the life and work of the explorer and missionary David Livingstone. The museum is operated by the David Livingstone Trust and is housed in a category A listed building often referred to as Shuttle Row.

    3.9 km · category A listed building in South Lanarkshire, Scotland, UK · 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.

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Getting to Bellshill

Airports
Glasgow (GLA), 26 km · Edinburgh (EDI), 43 km · Glasgow Prestwick (PIK), 49 km
Stations
Motherwell railway station, 3.4 km · Uddingston railway station, 3.9 km · Kirkwood railway station, 4.5 km · Airdrie railway station, 6 km · Coatbridge Sunnyside railway station, 5.7 km
  • Ingliston, Edinburgh → Bellshill
    43 km · quickest by road, 56 min · £4.5–6
  • Prestwick, South Ayrshire → Bellshill
    51 km · quickest by road, 1h 15m · £6–7
  • Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear → Bellshill
    178 km · quickest by road, 3h 29m · £21–28
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Bellshill

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

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Go nextAyr has the birthplace of Robert Burns in Alloway, and Ardrossan has ferries to the charming Isle of Arran.

From Wikivoyage: East Kilbride, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.

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

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    75 km
  2. 02
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    86 km
  3. 03
    Isle of JuraGB

    10 ways of moving, 19 sources

    114 km
  4. 04
    Isle of CollGB

    7 ways of moving, 16 sources

    181 km
  5. 05
    The Small Isles - Eigg, Muck, Rum and CannaGB

    9 ways of moving, 20 sources

    192 km

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

Around it

Next door to Bellshill

Bellshill is 15 km from Glasgow, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Hamiltontown in South Lanarkshire, Scotland, UK4.4 km
  • Motherwelltown in North Lanarkshire, Scotland, UK3.5 km
  • Coatbridgetown in North Lanarkshire, Scotland, UK5.2 km
  • Blantyretown in South Lanarkshire, Scotland, UK4.8 km
  • Uddingstontown in South Lanarkshire, Scotland, UK3.6 km
  • Bothwellvillage in South Lanarkshire, Scotland, UK2.9 km