Easterhouse
Easterhouse is a suburb of Glasgow, Scotland, six miles east of the city centre on land gained from the county of Lanarkshire as part of an expansion of Glasgow before the Second World War.
Easterhouse is a suburb of Glasgow, Scotland, six miles east of the city centre on land gained from the county of Lanarkshire as part of an expansion of Glasgow before the Second World War. The area is on high ground north of the River Clyde and south of the River Kelvin and Campsie Fells.
Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Worth seeing in and around Easterhouse
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.
- 01Glasgow Zoo
Glasgow Zoo, or Calderpark Zoo, was a 99-acre zoological park in Baillieston, Glasgow, Scotland. The zoo was established in 1947 by the Zoological Society of Glasgow and West of Scotland, which was itself established in 1936.
3.2 km · zoo in Glasgow City, Scotland, UK · Wikipedia - 02Glasgow Fort
Glasgow Fort is a large out-of-town shopping and leisure park in Glasgow, Scotland, just off Junction 10 of the M8 motorway which runs to the south, surrounded by the residential areas of Provanhall, Garthamlock and Easterhouse. It was opened in 2004 built on land which had been part of Auchinlea Park which still exists to its immediate east.
1.8 km · shopping mall in Glasgow, Scotland, UK · Wikipedia - 03Provan Hall
Provan Hall is a historic place composed of two buildings built about the 15th century and situated in Auchinlea Park, Easterhouse, Glasgow. It is owned by the National Trust for Scotland and leased by Glasgow City Council.
1.5 km · house in Glasgow City, Scotland, UK · Wikipedia - 04Drumpellier country park
Drumpellier Country Park is a country park situated to the west of Coatbridge, North Lanarkshire, Scotland. The park was formerly a private estate.
3.3 km · country park near Coatbridge, North Lanarkshire, Scotland, UK · Wikipedia - 05Baillieston St Andrew's Church
Baillieston St Andrew's Church is a congregation of the Church of Scotland, a member of the Presbyterian Church. The church building is located on the corner of Bredisholm Road and Muirhead Road, Baillieston, Glasgow, Scotland.
2 km · church building in Glasgow, Scotland, UK · Wikipedia - 06St John's Church, Baillieston
St John's Church, also known as St John's Baillieston, is a 19th-century parish church of the Scottish Episcopal Church, in the Baillieston area of Glasgow, Scotland.
1.6 km · church building in Glasgow, Scotland, UK · Wikipedia - 07Eastbank Church, 679 Old Shettleston Road, Glasgow
Shettleston New Church is an early 20th-century church building of the Church of Scotland in the Shettleston district of Glasgow, Scotland.
3.8 km · church building in Glasgow, Scotland, UK · Wikipedia
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Getting to Easterhouse
- Airports
- Glasgow (GLA), 20 km · Edinburgh (EDI), 47 km · Glasgow Prestwick (PIK), 50 km
- Stations
- Stepps railway station, 3.2 km · Easterhouse railway station, 900 m · Garrowhill railway station, 1.9 km · Mount Vernon railway station, 3.4 km · Bargeddie railway station, 2.8 km
- Ingliston, Edinburgh → Easterhouse48 km · quickest by road, 59 min · £5–7
- Prestwick, South Ayrshire → Easterhouse52 km · quickest by road, 1h 14m · £6–8
- Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear → Easterhouse186 km · quickest by road, 3h 34m · £22–29
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Easterhouse
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 Easterhouse. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inThere's a range of long-stay parks off-site, with transfer minibuses.
- Get in(The airport is in "Local" zone, so the "City" zone fare isn't enough.) McGill's Bus 757 trundles every 30 min to Paisley Gilmour Street railway station, which has very frequent trains to Glasgow Central, and outbound to Gourock (for Dunoon ferry), Wemyss Bay (for Bute ferry), Ardrossan (for Arran ferry) and Ayr.
- Get inThe fare is the same by any route: in 2024 a day trip is £15 and an open return is £20.
- Get inFor a day trip, park up at one of the outlying railway stations, if you can find a space among all the commuter vehicles.
- Get inThe crossing takes 2 hr 30 min, with almost a dozen car ferries a day.
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If you know how people move in Easterhouse – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.
Next door to Easterhouse
Easterhouse is 9 km from Glasgow, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Steppstown in North Lanarkshire, Scotland, UK3.7 km
- Gartcoshvillage in North Lanarkshire, Scotland, UK2.8 km
- Chrystonvillage in North Lanarkshire, Scotland, UK3.6 km
- Bargeddievillage in North Lanarkshire, Scotland, UK2.6 km
- Muirheadtown in North Lanarkshire, Scotland, UK3.6 km
- Gartlochhuman settlement in Glasgow City, Scotland, UK1.4 km