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Croy

Croy is a village in North Lanarkshire, Scotland.

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Croy · Dietmar Rabich
The place

Croy is a village in North Lanarkshire, Scotland. A former mining community, Croy is situated south of Kilsyth and north of Cumbernauld, some 13 miles (21 km) from Glasgow and 37 miles (60 km) from Edinburgh on the main railway line between the two cities. Croy has a population of about 1,390.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Croy

6 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
    University of the West of Scotland

    The University of the West of Scotland, formerly the University of Paisley, is a public university with four campuses in south-western Scotland, in the towns of Paisley, Blantyre, Dumfries and Ayr, as well as a campus in London, England. The present institution dates from August 2007, following the merger of the University of Paisley with Bell College, Hamilton.

    2.9 km · UK university (2007-) · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Broadwood Stadium

    Broadwood Stadium is a multi-use community stadium and sports complex in the Westfield area of Cumbernauld, North Lanarkshire. The stadium is currently the home of Scottish League One side Hamilton Academical, as well as Cumbernauld Colts of the Scottish Lowland Football League, and Rangers W.F.C of the Scottish Women's Premier League.

    1.6 km · football stadium in North Lanarkshire, Scotland, UK · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Bar Hill Roman fort

    Bar Hill Fort was a Roman fort on the Antonine Wall in Scotland. It was built around the year 142 CE. Older maps and documents sometimes spell the name as Barr Hill.

    1.9 km · site of Roman fort on the Antonine Wall in central Scotland · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Croy Hill Roman fort

    Croy Hill was a Roman fort, fortlet, and probable temporary camp on the Antonine Wall, near Croy, to the north east of the village in Scotland. Two communication platforms known as ‘expansions’ can be seen to the west of the fortlet.

    900 m · site of Roman fort on the Antonine Wall in central Scotland · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Antonine Centre

    The Antonine Centre is a shopping centre in the Scottish New Town of Cumbernauld. The centre has 350,000 sq ft of retail space including a 100,000 sq ft Tesco Extra and a 43,000 sq ft Dunnes which closed in 2018.

    3.5 km · shopping center in Scotland · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    The Centre Cumbernauld

    The Centre Cumbernauld is the commercial centre of the new town of Cumbernauld, Scotland. It was designed in the 1950s—as what became known as a megastructure—to be a town centre consisting of "one huge multi-storey building," according to its preliminary planning report, housing shops, apartments, a hotel, ice rink, police station and other amenities.

    3.5 km · shopping centre in Cumbernauld, Scotland · 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.

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Getting to Croy

Airports
Glasgow (GLA), 26 km · Edinburgh (EDI), 42 km · Glasgow Prestwick (PIK), 61 km
Stations
Croy railway station, 500 m · Greenfaulds railway station, 4 km · Kilsyth railway station, 2.5 km · Kilsyth New railway station, 2.4 km
  • Ingliston, Edinburgh → Croy
    42 km · quickest by road, 1h 2m · £5–7
  • Prestwick, South Ayrshire → Croy
    63 km · quickest by road, 1h 28m · £7–9
  • Aberdeen → Croy
    123 km · quickest by road, 2h 51m · £14–19
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Croy

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

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • 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.

From Wikivoyage: Central Belt, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2024-10.

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

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    81 km
  2. 02
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    85 km
  3. 03
    Isle of JuraGB

    10 ways of moving, 19 sources

    111 km
  4. 04
    Isle of CollGB

    7 ways of moving, 16 sources

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

    9 ways of moving, 20 sources

    181 km

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

Around it

Next door to Croy

Croy is 17 km from Glasgow, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Kilsythtown in North Lanarkshire, Scotland, UK2.6 km
  • Dullaturvillage in North Lanarkshire, Scotland, UK1.8 km
  • Twecharvillage in East Dunbartonshire, Scotland, UK2.8 km
  • Queenzieburnvillage in North Lanarkshire, Scotland, UK3.5 km
  • Condorratvillage in North Lanarkshire, Scotland, UK3 km
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