Chapelhall
Chapelhall is a village outside the town of Airdrie in North Lanarkshire, Scotland.
Chapelhall is a village outside the town of Airdrie in North Lanarkshire, Scotland. With house building, the distinction between Airdrie and Chapelhall is being eroded. Established as a small mining village in the 19th century, it now has a population of over 7,100.
Chapelhall is situated just off the M8 motorway 13 miles east of Glasgow city centre and around 33 miles west of Edinburgh. Chapelhall is also near to many of Lanarkshire's main towns, such as Bellshill, Coatbridge, Motherwell, Hamilton and Cumbernauld, as well as being around three miles from Airdrie town centre.
The Eurocentral freight village/industrial estate is just a mile or so away and employs people from around Lanarkshire, Glasgow and West Lothian. The rail-freight village links with Grangemouth docks 28 miles (45 km) away,.
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Worth seeing in and around Chapelhall
8 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.
- 01Excelsior Stadium
The Excelsior Stadium, officially The Albert Bartlett Stadium for sponsorship reasons, is a football stadium in Airdrie, North Lanarkshire, Scotland. It is the home ground of Airdrieonians of the Scottish Professional Football League.
1.8 km · football stadium in North Lanarkshire, Scotland, UK · Wikipedia - 02Monkland Canal
The Monkland Canal was a 12+1⁄4-mile-long canal designed to bring coal from the mining areas of Monklands to Glasgow in Scotland. In the course of a long and difficult construction process, it was opened progressively as short sections were completed, from 1771.
1.7 km · canal in Glasgow, Scotland, UK · Wikipedia - 03Airdrie Public Observatory
Airdrie Observatory is a fully operational, historic public astronomical observatory, which is part of the library building in the town of Airdrie, North Lanarkshire, Scotland. There are only four public observatories operating in the United Kingdom, all of which are in Scotland.
3.2 km · Astronomical observatory in Airdrie, Scotland · Wikipedia - 04Broomfield Park
Broomfield Park was a football stadium in Airdrie, North Lanarkshire, home of Airdrieonians from 1892 until it was closed after the 1993–94 football season.It was just 67 yards wide, and was built in a natural hollow. The record attendance at Broomfield Park was 24,000, in a Scottish Cup quarter-final match against Hearts on 8 March 1952.
2.8 km · stadium in North Lanarkshire, Scotland, UK · Wikipedia - 05Airdrie Library
Airdrie Library is a public library in Airdrie, North Lanarkshire, Scotland. The library has been housed in a number of buildings since its founding.
3.3 km · public library and observatory in North Lanarkshire, Scotland, UK · Wikipedia - 06County Buildings, Airdrie
County Buildings was a judicial building on Bank Street in Airdrie in Scotland. The building, which was the venue for hearings of the Airdrie Sheriff Court, was demolished in 1969.
3.2 km · Judicial building in Scotland · Wikipedia - 07Sir John Wilson Town Hall, Stirling Street, Airdrie
Airdie Town Hall, also known as the Sir John Wilson Town Hall, is an events venue in Stirling Street, Airdrie, North Lanarkshire, Scotland. It is a Category B listed building.
3.2 km · city hall in Airdrie, North Lanarkshire, Scotland, UK · Wikipedia - 08Roughrigg Reservoir
Roughrigg is a reservoir in North Lanarkshire. The reservoir itself is some 137 acres in extent.
3.1 km · reservoir in North Lanarkshire, Scotland, UK, outflows west to Clattering Burn · Wikipedia
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Getting to Chapelhall
- Airports
- Glasgow (GLA), 30 km · Edinburgh (EDI), 38 km · Glasgow Prestwick (PIK), 55 km
- Stations
- Airdrie railway station, 3.1 km · Drumgelloch railway station, 2.5 km · Holytown railway station, 4 km · Newhouse railway station, 2 km
- Prestwick, South Ayrshire → Chapelhall57 km · quickest by road, 1h 22m · £6–8
- Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear → Chapelhall176 km · quickest by road, 3h 35m · £21–29
- Aberdeen → Chapelhall184 km · quickest by road, 3h 25m · £20–27
- 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 Chapelhall
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 Chapelhall. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inThe West Highland Line connects Glasgow with Oban (for ferries to Mull, Coll, Tiree and Colonsay), Fort William and Mallaig (for ferries to Skye and South Uist).
- Get inThe other Hebrides ferry ports are linked by bus.
- Get inA77 runs from Stranraer (for Northern Ireland ferries) via Ayr and Kilmarnock to Glasgow.
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Chapelhall is 20 km from Glasgow, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
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