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Blackridge

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Blackridge

One place 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
    Polkemmet Country Park

    Polkemmet Country Park is located 2 kilometres west of the town of Whitburn in West Lothian, Scotland and east of the village of Greenrigg. It is a 3 star Visitor Attraction.

    4 km · country park in West Lothian, 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 Blackridge

Airports
Edinburgh (EDI), 26 km · Glasgow (GLA), 41 km · Glasgow Prestwick (PIK), 66 km
Stations
Blackridge railway station, 1.5 km
  • Glasgow → Blackridge
    30 km · quickest by road, 47 min · £3.5–4.5
  • Prestwick, South Ayrshire → Blackridge
    68 km · quickest by road, 1h 42m · £8–10
  • Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear → Blackridge
    170 km · quickest by road, 3h 41m · £21–28
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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.

Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Blackridge

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

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • 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.

From Wikivoyage: Central Belt, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2024-10.

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

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    92 km
  2. 02
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    102 km
  3. 03
    Isle of JuraGB

    10 ways of moving, 19 sources

    128 km
  4. 04
    Isle of CollGB

    7 ways of moving, 16 sources

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

    9 ways of moving, 20 sources

    199 km

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

Around it

Next door to Blackridge

Blackridge is 30 km from Glasgow, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Harthillvillage in North Lanarkshire, Scotland, UK3.2 km
  • Forrestfieldvillage in North Lanarkshire, Scotland, UK3.7 km
  • Greenrigghuman settlement in West Lothian, Scotland, UK3.3 km