Skip to content
Mixroutes
Place · United Kingdom

Coalford

Coalford is a village in Drumoak, Aberdeenshire, Scotland.

The place

Coalford is a village in Drumoak, Aberdeenshire, Scotland. It is slightly north of the River Dee and about 1 mile (1.6 km) west of Peterculter. The population is around 100.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Coalford

4 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
    Drum Castle

    Drum Castle is a castle near Drumoak in Aberdeenshire, Scotland. For centuries it was the seat of the chief of Clan Irvine.

    2.7 km · castle in Aberdeenshire, Scotland, UK · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Maryculter House

    Maryculter House is a historic house in the village of Maryculter, or Kirkton of Maryculter, in the Lower Deeside area of Aberdeenshire, Scotland.

    2.2 km · historic house in Maryculter, Aberdeenshire, Scotland, UK, now a hotel · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Park Bridge

    Park Bridge is a road bridge in Aberdeenshire, Scotland which crosses the River Dee. It is currently open to pedestrians and cyclists, and it also carried vehicular traffic until February 2019.

    3 km · bridge in Aberdeenshire, Scotland · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    The Den and the Glen

    The Den and the Glen is a children's park in Maryculter, Scotland, near the city of Aberdeen, which opened in 1984. The park features outdoor play areas and sculptural displays depicting characters from fairy tales, nursery rhymes, and popular children’s television and film franchises.

    3.9 km · park in Aberdeenshire, Scotland, UK · 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 Coalford

Airports
Aberdeen (ABZ), 14 km · Edinburgh (EDI), 143 km · Glasgow (GLA), 189 km
Stations
Culter railway station, 2 km
  • Ingliston, Edinburgh → Coalford
    143 km · quickest by road, 2h 59m · £18–24
  • Glasgow → Coalford
    182 km · quickest by road, 3h 28m · £21–28
  • Prestwick, South Ayrshire → Coalford
    227 km · quickest by road, 4h 18m · £26–34
  • From anywhere
    The planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
    Plan a trip

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 Coalford

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

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inThe city also has trains every couple of hours from Inverness, ferries from Orkney and Shetland, and inter-city buses.
  • Get inAll buses start from Aberdeen Union Square, next to the railway station and ferry port.

From Wikivoyage: Westhill, 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
    Kirkwall and the Orkney IslandsGB

    9 ways of moving, 33 sources

    214 km
  2. 02
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    234 km
  3. 03
    Isle of SkyeGB

    12 ways of moving, 18 sources

    241 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

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

    9 ways of moving, 20 sources

    246 km

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

Around it

Next door to Coalford