Chryston
Chryston is a village in North Lanarkshire, around 7 miles (11 km) east of Glasgow, in Scotland.
Chryston is a village in North Lanarkshire, around 7 miles (11 km) east of Glasgow, in Scotland. It lies north of its sister village, Muirhead, which is on the A80. The village has around double Muirhead's population, although the exact boundary between the two modern villages is difficult to find.
Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Worth seeing in and around Chryston
5 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.
- 01Bedlay Castle
Bedlay Castle is a former defensive castle, dating from the late 16th and 17th centuries. It is located between Chryston and Moodiesburn in North Lanarkshire, Scotland.
1 km · castle in North Lanarkshire, Scotland, UK · Wikipedia - 02Auld Aisle Cemetery
The Auld Aisle Cemetery is located in Kirkintilloch, East Dunbartonshire, Scotland. The cemetery is protected as a category A listed building, and includes graves dating back to the eighteenth century.
3.3 km · cemetery in East Dunbartonshire, Scotland, UK · Wikipedia - 03Lenzie Old Parish Church
Lenzie Old Parish Church is a listed church in the town of Lenzie in Dunbartonshire, Scotland. The church, originally a chapel of ease, was completed in 1874.
3.3 km · church building in East Dunbartonshire, Scotland, UK · Wikipedia - 04Gadloch
The Gadloch is a fresh water loch in North Lanarkshire, situated near the town of Lenzie, Scotland. To the south of the loch is the small village of Auchinloch.
3.4 km · lake in North Lanarkshire, Scotland, UK · Wikipedia - 05St Cyprian's Church, Lenzie
St Cyprian's Church is an episcopal church in Beech road, Lenzie, East Dunbartonshire, Scotland. It was built in 1873 by Alexander Ross of Inverness and cost around £2600.
3.8 km · church in East Dunbartonshire, Scotland, UK · Wikipedia
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Getting to Chryston
- Airports
- Glasgow (GLA), 21 km · Edinburgh (EDI), 46 km · Glasgow Prestwick (PIK), 54 km
- Stations
- Lenzie railway station, 3.2 km · Stepps railway station, 2.6 km · Gartcosh railway station, 3 km
- Ingliston, Edinburgh → Chryston47 km · quickest by road, 1h 5m · £5–7
- Prestwick, South Ayrshire → Chryston55 km · quickest by road, 1h 18m · £6–8
- Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear → Chryston188 km · quickest by road, 3h 39m · £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 Chryston
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 Chryston. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inThere's a range of long-stay parks off-site, with transfer minibuses.
- Get in(The airport is in "Local" zone, so the "City" zone fare isn't enough.) McGill's Bus 757 trundles every 30 min to Paisley Gilmour Street railway station, which has very frequent trains to Glasgow Central, and outbound to Gourock (for Dunoon ferry), Wemyss Bay (for Bute ferry), Ardrossan (for Arran ferry) and Ayr.
- Get inThe fare is the same by any route: in 2024 a day trip is £15 and an open return is £20.
- Get inFor a day trip, park up at one of the outlying railway stations, if you can find a space among all the commuter vehicles.
- Get inThe crossing takes 2 hr 30 min, with almost a dozen car ferries a day.
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If you know how people move in Chryston – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.
Next door to Chryston
Chryston is 10 km from Glasgow, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Steppstown in North Lanarkshire, Scotland, UK3.1 km
- Gartcoshvillage in North Lanarkshire, Scotland, UK2.6 km
- Auchinlochvillage in North Lanarkshire, Scotland, UK2.2 km
- Moodiesburnvillage in North Lanarkshire, Scotland, UK1.8 km
- Lenzietown in East Dunbartonshire, Scotland, UK3.3 km
- Watersidevillage in East Dunbartonshire, Scotland, UK3.1 km