Coaltown of Balgonie

Worth seeing in and around Coaltown of Balgonie

7 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
   Balgonie Castle

   Balgonie Castle is located on the south bank of the River Leven near Milton of Balgonie, 3.5 kilometres east of Glenrothes, Fife, Scotland. The castle keep dates from the 14th century, and the remaining structures were added piecemeal until the 18th century.

   1.6 km · castle in Fife, Scotland, UK · Wikipedia
2. 02
   Balbirnie House

   Balbirnie House is an early 19th-century country house in Glenrothes, in central Fife, Scotland. The present house was completed in 1817 as a rebuild of an 18th-century building, itself a replacement for a 17th-century dwelling.

   3 km · country house in Markinch parish, Fife, Scotland, UK · Wikipedia
3. 03
   Balbirnie Stone Circle

   Balbirnie Stone Circle is an archaeological site, a stone circle on the north-eastern edge of Glenrothes, in Fife, Scotland.

   3.6 km · archaeological site in Fife, Scotland · Wikipedia
4. 04
   Fife House, Glenrothes

   Fife House, formerly Glenrothes House, is a large office development on North Street in Glenrothes, Fife, Scotland. It was built for Glenrothes Development Corporation in 1969, then became the headquarters of Fife Regional Council from shortly after its formation in 1975 and then became the offices and meeting place of Fife Council in 1996.

   3.2 km · municipal Building in Scotland · Wikipedia
5. 05
   Riverside Park, Glenrothes

   Riverside Park is a large town park situated in Glenrothes, Fife. The park straddles the River Leven valley riparian corridor, comprising significant areas of woodland, grassed playing fields and wetlands.

   3.9 km · park in Fife, Scotland, UK · Wikipedia
6. 06
   Kingdom Shopping Centre

   The Kingdom Shopping Centre is an indoor retail and commercial complex in Glenrothes, located in the town centre. It is the largest indoor shopping centre in Fife and is one of the largest single-level indoor shopping centres in Scotland with around 36,000 m2 of floorspace.

   3 km · shopping destination in Glenrothes, Scotland · Wikipedia
7. 07
   Balfarg

   Balfarg is a prehistoric monument complex in Glenrothes, Fife, Scotland. It is protected as a scheduled monument.

   3.9 km · Neolithic henge monument · Wikipedia

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Getting to Coaltown of Balgonie

Airports

Edinburgh (EDI), 30 km · Glasgow (GLA), 88 km · Glasgow Prestwick (PIK), 118 km

Stations

Markinch railway station, 1.9 km · Glenrothes with Thornton railway station, 2.6 km

• Glasgow → Coaltown of Balgonie

  79 km · quickest by road, 1h 48m · £9–11
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• Prestwick, South Ayrshire → Coaltown of Balgonie

  120 km · quickest by road, 2h 21m · £14–18
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• Aberdeen → Coaltown of Balgonie

  124 km · quickest by road, 2h 42m · £13–17
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