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Dennyloanhead

Dennyloanhead is a village in the Falkirk council area, Central Scotland, that is between Head of Muir and Longcroft.

The place

Dennyloanhead is a village in the Falkirk council area, Central Scotland, that is between Head of Muir and Longcroft. Dennyloanhead had a fingerpost announcing that it is 294 miles from John o' Groats. Old maps show it is 9 miles from Stirling and 5 miles from Falkirk. In 2022 it had a population of 1610.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Dennyloanhead

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
    Castle Cary Castle

    Castle Cary Castle is a fifteenth-century tower house near Castlecary, about 6 miles from Falkirk in Scotland. It is less than 3 miles from Cumbernauld Village.

    3.5 km · 15th-century tower house in Scotland · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Rough Castle Fort

    Rough Castle Fort is a Roman fort on the Antonine Wall roughly 2 kilometres south east of Bonnybridge near Tamfourhill in the Falkirk council area, Scotland. It is owned by the National Trust for Scotland.

    3.4 km · Roman fort on the Antonine Wall in central Scotland · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Denny Town House

    Denny Town House is a municipal building in Glasgow Road, Denny, Falkirk, Scotland. The structure is used by Falkirk Council for the provision of local services.

    2.1 km · municipal Building in Scotland · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Herbertshire Castle

    Herbertshire Castle was a castle built in the Barony of Herbertshire in the early 15th century, located near Dunipace, Falkirk, central Scotland. It is said once to have been a royal hunting station.

    3 km · castle in Falkirk, 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 Dennyloanhead

Airports
Edinburgh (EDI), 34 km · Glasgow (GLA), 36 km · Glasgow Prestwick (PIK), 69 km
Stations
Banknock railway station, 3.1 km
  • Prestwick, South Ayrshire → Dennyloanhead
    71 km · quickest by road, 1h 36m · £7–10
  • Aberdeen → Dennyloanhead
    169 km · quickest by road, 3h 5m · £19–25
  • Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear → Dennyloanhead
    184 km · quickest by road, 3h 50m · £22–30
  • From anywhere
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Dennyloanhead

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 Dennyloanhead. 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

    90 km
  2. 02
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    94 km
  3. 03
    Isle of JuraGB

    10 ways of moving, 19 sources

    119 km
  4. 04
    Isle of CollGB

    7 ways of moving, 16 sources

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

    9 ways of moving, 20 sources

    184 km

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

Around it

Next door to Dennyloanhead

Dennyloanhead is 26 km from Glasgow, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Bonnybridgetown in Falkirk, Scotland, UK1.6 km
  • Dennytown in Falkirk, Scotland, UK2 km
  • Dunipacevillage in Falkirk, Scotland, UK3.1 km
  • Banknockvillage in Falkirk, Scotland, UK2.9 km
  • Haggsvillage in Falkirk, Scotland, UK2.1 km
  • Castlecaryvillage in North Lanarkshire, Scotland, UK3.2 km