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Cambusbarron

Cambusbarron is a village in Stirling, Scotland.

Cambusbarron
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The place

Cambusbarron is a village in Stirling, Scotland. In the 2001 census, it had a population of 3,224. There is evidence of settlement at the site since the Bronze Age, and several forts dating from the Iron Age have been found near the village. One such fort is located at Gillies Hill, a large semi-natural ancient woodland area with a range of unusual wildlife, thought to be the site of Robert the Bruce's camp shortly before the Battle of Bannockburn.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Cambusbarron

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.

    2.1 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.

    3.5 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.

    3.7 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.

    2 km · church in Stirling, Scotland, UK · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Old Bridge

    Stirling Old Bridge is a stone bridge which crosses the River Forth. For over 300 years it provided the lowest crossing point of the Forth and so had strategic importance.

    2.9 km · bridge in Stirling, Scotland · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    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.

    2.1 km · 17th-century town-house in Scotland · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    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.

    1.4 km · hill 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.

    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.

    1.8 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.

    2 km · ruined building in Stirling built 1570–1572 · Wikipedia

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Getting to Cambusbarron

Airports
Glasgow (GLA), 39 km · Edinburgh (EDI), 41 km · Glasgow Prestwick (PIK), 78 km
Stations
Stirling railway station, 2.3 km · Forthside Bridge, 2.4 km
  • Ingliston, Edinburgh → Cambusbarron
    42 km · quickest by road, 57 min · £4.5–6
  • Prestwick, South Ayrshire → Cambusbarron
    79 km · quickest by road, 1h 52m · £9–11
  • Aberdeen → Cambusbarron
    162 km · quickest by road, 2h 56m · £17–23
  • From anywhere
    The planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
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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 Cambusbarron

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

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inTrains from Glasgow also run west of Loch Lomond to Crianlarich, where they branch for Oban (for ferries to the Hebrides) or Fort William (for Ben Nevis).
  • Go nextHighlands northwest bring you to Glencoe, or Oban for ferries to the Hebrides.

From Wikivoyage: Stirlingshire and Clackmannanshire, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2025-06.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    93 km
  2. 02
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    94 km
  3. 03
    Isle of JuraGB

    10 ways of moving, 19 sources

    117 km
  4. 04
    Isle of CollGB

    7 ways of moving, 16 sources

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

    9 ways of moving, 20 sources

    174 km

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

Around it

Next door to Cambusbarron

Cambusbarron is 33 km from Glasgow, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.