Carmunnock
Carmunnock is a conservation village situated within the Glasgow City council area, lying within three miles of East Kilbride and Rutherglen in South Lanarkshire and Busby in East Renfrewshire.

Carmunnock is a conservation village situated within the Glasgow City council area, lying within three miles of East Kilbride and Rutherglen in South Lanarkshire and Busby in East Renfrewshire. The nearest other district within Glasgow is Castlemilk.
Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Worth seeing in and around Carmunnock
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.
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- 05Cathcart South Church, 90-92 Clarkston Road, Glasgow
Church building in Glasgow, Scotland, UK
3.4 km · Wikipedia - 06Couper Institute and Library, 84-86 Clarkston Road, Glasgow
Library in Glasgow, Scotland, UK
3.4 km · Wikipedia - 07Holmlea Primary School, 352-362 Holmlea Road, Glasgow
School building in Glasgow City, Scotland, UK
3.6 km · Wikipedia - 08
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- 10Cathcart Old Parish Church and Hall, Carmunnock Road, Glasgow
Church building and church hall in Glasgow, Scotland, UK
3.3 km · 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.
Getting to Carmunnock
- Airports
- Glasgow (GLA), 15 km · Glasgow Prestwick (PIK), 38 km · Edinburgh (EDI), 57 km
- Stations
- Cathcart railway station, 3.5 km · Muirend railway station, 3.2 km · King's Park railway station, 3.4 km · Thorntonhall railway station, 2.5 km · Croftfoot railway station, 3.2 km
- Ingliston, Edinburgh → Carmunnock57 km · quickest by road, 1h 15m · £6–8
- Belfast → Carmunnock171 km · quickest by road, 14h 1m · £70–95
- Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear → Carmunnock189 km · quickest by road, 3h 40m · £22–29
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
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 Carmunnock
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 Carmunnock. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Go nextAyr has the birthplace of Robert Burns in Alloway, and Ardrossan has ferries to the charming Isle of Arran.
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If you know how people move in Carmunnock – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.
Next door to Carmunnock
Carmunnock is 8 km from Glasgow, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Giffnocktown in East Renfrewshire, Scotland, UK3.5 km
- Clarkstontown in East Renfrewshire, Scotland, UK3.3 km
- Busbyhuman settlement in East Renfrewshire, Scotland, UK1.9 km
- Mount Floridasuburb of Glasgow, Scotland, UK3.9 km
- Thorntonhallvillage in South Lanarkshire, Scotland, UK2.3 km
- Muirenddistrict in Glasgow City, Scotland, UK3.6 km