Birdston
Birdston is a hamlet located in East Dunbartonshire, Scotland between Milton of Campsie and Kirkintilloch.
Birdston is a hamlet located in East Dunbartonshire, Scotland between Milton of Campsie and Kirkintilloch. The 'Campsie poet' William Muir (1766-1817) was born in Birdston and is buried in the kirkyard there. A monument to him was erected in the kirkyard by admirers of his poems in 1857.
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Worth seeing in and around Birdston
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.
- 01Luggie Aqueduct
The Luggie Aqueduct carries the Forth & Clyde Canal over the Luggie Water at Kirkintilloch, to the north of Glasgow. It is a Category A listed building.
1.5 km · navigable aqueduct north of Glasgow, Scotland · Wikipedia - 02Auld Aisle Cemetery
The Auld Aisle Cemetery is located in Kirkintilloch, East Dunbartonshire, Scotland. The cemetery is protected as a category A listed building, and includes graves dating back to the eighteenth century.
2.7 km · cemetery in East Dunbartonshire, Scotland, UK · Wikipedia - 03St Cyprian's Church, Lenzie
St Cyprian's Church is an episcopal church in Beech road, Lenzie, East Dunbartonshire, Scotland. It was built in 1873 by Alexander Ross of Inverness and cost around £2600.
2.7 km · church in East Dunbartonshire, Scotland, UK · Wikipedia - 04Lenzie Old Parish Church
Lenzie Old Parish Church is a listed church in the town of Lenzie in Dunbartonshire, Scotland. The church, originally a chapel of ease, was completed in 1874.
3.3 km · church building in East Dunbartonshire, Scotland, UK · Wikipedia - 05Adamslie Park
Adamslie Park was formerly a football ground in Kirkintilloch, East Dunbartonshire, Scotland, which was the home ground of Scottish Junior Football Association club Kirkintilloch Rob Roy F.C. until 2014. It was located on Glasgow Road in the north-west of the town and had a capacity of 5,500 all standing.
1.8 km · stadium in East Dunbartonshire, Scotland, UK · Wikipedia - 06Kirkintilloch Town Hall
Kirkintilloch Town Hall is a municipal building in Union Street in Kirkintilloch, East Dunbartonshire, Scotland. It is a category B listed building.
1.3 km · building in Kirkintilloch, East Dunbartonshire, Scotland, UK · Wikipedia
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Getting to Birdston
- Airports
- Glasgow (GLA), 19 km · Edinburgh (EDI), 49 km · Glasgow Prestwick (PIK), 57 km
- Stations
- Lenzie railway station, 3.4 km · Back O'Loch Halt railway station, 2.1 km · Milton of Campsie railway station, 1.1 km · Kirkintilloch railway station, 1.3 km
- Ingliston, Edinburgh → Birdston50 km · quickest by road, 1h 14m · £6–8
- Prestwick, South Ayrshire → Birdston58 km · quickest by road, 1h 25m · £6–8
- Aberdeen → Birdston183 km · quickest by road, 3h 24m · £20–27
- 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 Birdston
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 Birdston. 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.
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If you know how people move in Birdston – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.
Next door to Birdston
Birdston is 11 km from Glasgow, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
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