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Bonkle

Bonkle is a village 3 miles (4.8 km) north-east of Wishaw in North Lanarkshire, Scotland.

The place

Bonkle is a village 3 miles (4.8 km) north-east of Wishaw in North Lanarkshire, Scotland. It is sited on the east bank of the South Calder Water. Murdostoun Castle is located nearby.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Bonkle

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
    St. Ignatius Church

    St Ignatius Church is a Roman Catholic parish church in the town of Wishaw in North Lanarkshire, Scotland, within the Diocese of Motherwell. The church building was constructed in 1865, and is a category A listed building.

    3.9 km · Catholic church in North 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 Bonkle

Airports
Edinburgh (EDI), 35 km · Glasgow (GLA), 37 km · Glasgow Prestwick (PIK), 55 km
Stations
Hartwood railway station, 2.7 km · Cleland railway station, 3.6 km
  • Prestwick, South Ayrshire → Bonkle
    57 km · quickest by road, 1h 31m · £7–9
  • Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear → Bonkle
    168 km · quickest by road, 3h 30m · £20–27
  • Aberdeen → Bonkle
    185 km · quickest by road, 3h 28m · £21–28
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Bonkle

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

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Go nextAdmirers of Burns should head for Ayr, while Ardrossan has ferries for the Isle of Arran.

From Wikivoyage: Clydesdale, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2025-12.

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

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    84 km
  2. 02
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    97 km
  3. 03
    Isle of JuraGB

    10 ways of moving, 19 sources

    124 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

    201 km

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

Around it

Next door to Bonkle

Bonkle is 26 km from Glasgow, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Clelandvillage in North Lanarkshire, Scotland, UK3.7 km
  • Allantonvillage in North Lanarkshire, Scotland, UK1.9 km
  • Newmainsvillage in North Lanarkshire, Scotland, UK1.3 km
  • Morningsidevillage in North Lanarkshire, Scotland, UK1.4 km
  • Hartwoodvillage in North Lanarkshire, Scotland, UK2.7 km
  • Cambusnethanvillage and suburb in North Lanarkshire, Scotland, United Kingdom2.5 km