Dullatur
Dullatur is a village in Cumbernauld, Scotland.
Dullatur is a village in Cumbernauld, Scotland. Like Condorrat, Castlecary and Luggiebank, it predates the new town of Cumbernauld, and of those only Condorrat was officially included in the designated area. Its name is anglicised from the Gaelic Dubh Leitir, which means "dark slope". The route of the Antonine Wall passes just to the north of Dullatur. Two Roman temporary marching camps were located at Dullatur between the forts at Croy Hill and Westerwood. The camps have been excavated several times by archaeologists following aerial photography and proposed housebuilding. Both camps have now been built over, and no visible remains can be seen on the ground today. Digital reconstructions of the larger and the smaller of the camps have been created. When building the nearby Forth and Clyde Canal in the 18th century a number of finds were made in Dullatur Bog. Thomas Watson recorded: "a number of swords, pistols, and other weapons were dug out; also the bodies of men and horses, and what seems somewhat marvellous, a trooper, completely armed, and seated on his horse, in the exact posture in which he had perished." It was supposed that the man was escaping the Battle of Kilsyth which is due north of Dullatur Bog.
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What Wikivoyage says to see
- 01Colzium House
The park has a walled garden, the remains of an old ice house, a curling pond, and attractive scenery.
- 02Croy Hill on the Antonine Wall
- 03Bar Hill
Findings here include a well, shoes of men women and children, and a stone altar to Silvanus.
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Things to do
Burngreen Park is a short walk from Main Street. There's a children’s playpark, tennis court, trampolines and a miniature putting green. Visit Lanarkshire "Ten Walks Guide" features two local routes - the Antonine Wall and Forth-Clyde Canal Walk, and the Colzium House and Tomtain walk. Golf: Kilsyth Lennox GC is north side of the village, and Dullatur GC is south of Croy Hill on the edge of Cumbernauld.
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Getting to Dullatur
- Airports
- Glasgow (GLA), 28 km · Edinburgh (EDI), 40 km · Glasgow Prestwick (PIK), 63 km
- Ingliston, Edinburgh → Dullatur41 km · quickest by road, 58 min · £4.5–6
- Prestwick, South Ayrshire → Dullatur64 km · quickest by road, 1h 32m · £7–9
- Aberdeen → Dullatur176 km · quickest by road, 3h 10m · £19–26
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No local-transport research exists yet for Dullatur
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 Dullatur. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- 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.
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Next door to Dullatur
Dullatur is 19 km from Glasgow, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.