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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
Carmunnock · Rosser1954
The place

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.

What is there

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.

  1. 01
    National Museum of Rural Life

    National museum in South Lanarkshire, Scotland, UK

    1.9 km · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Cathcart Castle

    Castle in Glasgow City, Scotland, UK

    2.9 km · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Linn Park

    Park in Glasgow, Scotland, UK

    2.1 km · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Mains Castle

    Castle in East Kilbride, South Lanarkshire, Scotland

    3.3 km · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Cathcart South Church, 90-92 Clarkston Road, Glasgow

    Church building in Glasgow, Scotland, UK

    3.4 km · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Couper Institute and Library, 84-86 Clarkston Road, Glasgow

    Library in Glasgow, Scotland, UK

    3.4 km · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Holmlea Primary School, 352-362 Holmlea Road, Glasgow

    School building in Glasgow City, Scotland, UK

    3.6 km · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    Cathcart Cemetery

    Cemetery in Glasgow, Scotland, UK

    2.8 km · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    Overtoun Park

    Park in Rutherglen, near Glasgow, Scotland

    3.9 km · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    Cathcart 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.

Go there

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 → Carmunnock
    57 km · quickest by road, 1h 15m · £6–8
  • Belfast → Carmunnock
    171 km · quickest by road, 14h 1m · £70–95
  • Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear → Carmunnock
    189 km · quickest by road, 3h 40m · £22–29
  • 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 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.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Go nextAyr has the birthplace of Robert Burns in Alloway, and Ardrossan has ferries to the charming Isle of Arran.

From Wikivoyage: East Kilbride, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.

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

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    61 km
  2. 02
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    73 km
  3. 03
    Isle of JuraGB

    10 ways of moving, 19 sources

    101 km
  4. 04
    Isle of CollGB

    7 ways of moving, 16 sources

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

    9 ways of moving, 20 sources

    184 km

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

Around it

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