Bishopbriggs
Worth seeing in and around Bishopbriggs
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.
- 01Springburn Winter Garden
The Springburn Winter Gardens is a former large winter garden located at Springburn Park in the Springburn district of the Scottish city of Glasgow, constructed in 1900.
2 km · winter garden in Glasgow, 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.
3.5 km · Roman fort on the Antonine Wall in Scotland · Wikipedia - 03Petershill Park
Petershill Park is a leisure centre and football stadium located in the Springburn suburb of Glasgow, the largest city in Scotland. It has a third generation full-size outdoor football pitch, and has floodlights.
3.3 km · stadium in Glasgow City, Scotland, UK · Wikipedia - 04Gadloch
The Gadloch is a fresh water loch in North Lanarkshire, situated near the town of Lenzie, Scotland. To the south of the loch is the small village of Auchinloch.
3.5 km · lake in North Lanarkshire, Scotland, UK · Wikipedia - 05Huntershill 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.
900 m · house in Glasgow, East Dunbartonshire, Scotland, UK · Wikipedia - 06Sighthill Cemetery
Sighthill Cemetery is an active cemetery in central Glasgow, Scotland dating from 1840. It has an operational crematorium.
3.6 km · cemetery in Glasgow, Scotland, UK · Wikipedia - 07Springburn Park
Springburn Park is a park situated in the north of the city of Glasgow, Scotland. The 31-hectare park lies about 2+4⁄5 miles north of the city centre, and takes its name from the surrounding Springburn district of the city.
2 km · park in Glasgow, Scotland · Wikipedia - 08Springburn Public Halls
Springburn Public Halls was a public events venue on Millarbank Street in Springburn, part of Glasgow, Scotland. The building, which was derelict for three decades before being demolished in 2012, was a Category B listed building.
3.1 km · municipal building in Scotland · Wikipedia - 09Hyde Park
Hyde Park was a football ground in the Springburn area of Glasgow, Scotland. It was the home ground of Northern for most of its existence.
3.1 km · park in Glasgow, Scotland, UK · Wikipedia - 10Western Necropolis
Western Necropolis is a cemetery complex in Glasgow, Scotland located to the north of the city centre. As well as the actual Western Necropolis cemetery established in 1882, it is bordered by Lambhill Cemetery which opened in 1881, St Kentigern's Cemetery that opened in 1882, and Glasgow Hebrew Burial Ground founded in 1989.
4 km · cemetery in the north of Glasgow, Scotland, UK · Wikipedia
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Getting to Bishopbriggs
- Airports
- Glasgow (GLA), 14 km · Glasgow Prestwick (PIK), 50 km · Edinburgh (EDI), 53 km
- Stations
- Possilpark and Parkhouse railway station, 3.1 km · Ashfield railway station, 2.7 km · Springburn railway station, 2.9 km · Bishopbriggs railway station, 500 m · Barnhill railway station, 3.2 km
- Prestwick, South Ayrshire → Bishopbriggs52 km · quickest by road, 1h 14m · £5–7
- Ingliston, Edinburgh → Bishopbriggs54 km · quickest by road, 1h 15m · £6–8
- Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear → Bishopbriggs194 km · quickest by road, 3h 48m · £22–30
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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 Bishopbriggs
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 Bishopbriggs. 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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Next door to Bishopbriggs
Bishopbriggs is 5 km from Glasgow, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
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