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Broomridge

Broomridge is a district in the south of the city of Stirling, Scotland, located north of Bannockburn and east of St.

The place

Broomridge is a district in the south of the city of Stirling, Scotland, located north of Bannockburn and east of St. Ninians. It is home to Bannockburn High School and is also served by Braehead Primary School in the neighbouring district of Braehead.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Broomridge

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
    Stirling Castle

    Stirling Castle, located in Stirling, is one of the largest and most historically and architecturally important castles in Scotland. The castle sits atop an intrusive crag, which forms part of the Stirling Sill geological formation.

    3.9 km · castle in Stirling, Scotland, UK · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Cambuskenneth Abbey

    The Abbey of St Mary of Cambuskenneth, commonly known as Cambuskenneth Abbey, was a provostry of Canons Regular located on an area of land enclosed by a meander of the River Forth near Stirling in Scotland. The abbey today is largely reduced to its foundations, however its bell tower remains.

    3.8 km · abbey in Stirling, Scotland, UK · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Forthbank Stadium

    Forthbank Stadium is a football stadium in Stirling, Scotland. Opened in 1993, it has been the home ground of Scottish Professional Football League club Stirling Albion since then.

    3.4 km · football stadium in Stirling, Scotland, UK · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Church of the Holy Rude, Stirling

    The Church of the Holy Rude is the medieval parish church of Stirling, Scotland. It is named after the Holy Rood, a relic of the True Cross on which Jesus was crucified.

    3.5 km · church in Stirling, Scotland, UK · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Argyll's Lodging

    Argyll's Lodging is a 17th-century town-house in the Renaissance style, situated below Stirling Castle in Stirling, Scotland. It was a residence of William Alexander, 1st Earl of Stirling and later the Earls of Argyll.

    3.6 km · 17th-century town-house in Scotland · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Gillies Hill

    Gillies Hill is located west of Stirling and the M9, south of Cambusbarron, and north of the Bannock Burn in Central Scotland. Gillies Hill covers a 140 hectares crag and tail which rises from a height of 79 metres at the Bannock Burn Bridge near Sauchie Craig to an elevation of 162 m at a point which overlooks the former quarrying operation to the west and Stirling Castle to the east.

    3 km · hill in Stirling, Scotland, UK · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Auchenbowie House

    Auchenbowie House is a laird's house in Stirling, Scotland. The location is about 3.5 miles south of Stirling, on minor road west of the A872 west of the M80 at Auchenbowie.

    2.8 km · house in Stirling, Scotland, UK · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    Statue of Henry Campbell-Bannerman

    A statue of Henry Campbell-Bannerman by Paul Raphael Montford stands in Stirling, Scotland. Erected in 1913, it depicts Henry Campbell-Bannerman, the former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and Liberal Member of Parliament for Stirling Burghs.

    3.2 km · statue in Stirling, Scotland, UK · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    Stirling Smith Museum and Art Gallery

    Stirling Smith Art Gallery and Museum, formerly the Smith Institute, is an art and local history museum in Stirling, Scotland. The museum was founded in 1874 at the bequest of artist Thomas Stuart Smith.

    3.4 km · museum in Stirling, Scotland, United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    Mar's Wark

    Mar's Wark is a ruined building in Stirling built 1570–1572 by John Erskine, Regent of Scotland and Earl of Mar, and now in the care of Historic Scotland. Mar intended the building for the principal residence of the Erskine family in Stirling, whose chief had become hereditary keeper of the nearby royal Stirling Castle where the princes of Scotland were schooled.

    3.6 km · ruined building in Stirling built 1570–1572 · 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 Broomridge

Airports
Edinburgh (EDI), 38 km · Glasgow (GLA), 40 km · Glasgow Prestwick (PIK), 77 km
Stations
Stirling railway station, 3.3 km · Forthside Bridge, 3.3 km
  • Prestwick, South Ayrshire → Broomridge
    79 km · quickest by road, 1h 48m · £9–11
  • Aberdeen → Broomridge
    161 km · quickest by road, 2h 58m · £18–23
  • Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear → Broomridge
    192 km · quickest by road, 3h 54m · £23–30
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Broomridge

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

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

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    95 km
  2. 02
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    95 km
  3. 03
    Isle of JuraGB

    10 ways of moving, 19 sources

    119 km
  4. 04
    Isle of CollGB

    7 ways of moving, 16 sources

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

    9 ways of moving, 20 sources

    178 km

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

Around it

Next door to Broomridge

Broomridge is 32 km from Glasgow, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.