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East Wemyss

East Wemyss is a village situated on the south coast of Fife, Scotland.

East Wemyss
East Wemyss · AlasdairW
The place

East Wemyss is a village situated on the south coast of Fife, Scotland. According to the 2011 census, the village has a population of 1,928.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around East Wemyss

2 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
    Macduff's Castle

    MacDuff's Castle is a ruined castle near East Wemyss, in Fife, Scotland. The site is associated with the MacDuff Earls of Fife, the most powerful family in Fife in the Middle Ages, although nothing survives from this period.

    400 m · castle in Fife, Scotland, UK · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Wemyss Castle

    Wemyss Castle is situated in Wemyss on the sea cliffs between the villages of East Wemyss and West Wemyss in Fife, Scotland. Wemyss Castle is considered to be a multi-period building, and today's castle includes many elements from former periods such as the 15th-century tower and the 19th-century stables and gatepiers.

    2.1 km · castle in Fife, 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.

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Getting to East Wemyss

Airports
Edinburgh (EDI), 30 km · Glasgow (GLA), 91 km · Glasgow Prestwick (PIK), 120 km
Stations
Cameron Bridge railway station, 3.2 km
  • Glasgow → East Wemyss
    81 km · quickest by road, 1h 55m · £9–12
  • Prestwick, South Ayrshire → East Wemyss
    121 km · quickest by road, 2h 27m · £14–18
  • Aberdeen → East Wemyss
    124 km · quickest by road, 2h 32m · £14–18
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for East Wemyss

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

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

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    145 km
  2. 02
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    149 km
  3. 03
    Isle of JuraGB

    10 ways of moving, 19 sources

    173 km
  4. 04
    The Small Isles - Eigg, Muck, Rum and CannaGB

    9 ways of moving, 20 sources

    221 km
  5. 05
    Isle of CollGB

    7 ways of moving, 16 sources

    222 km

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

Around it

Next door to East Wemyss

East Wemyss is 25 km from Edinburgh, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.