Foxbar
Foxbar is a district of Paisley, bordered by the Gleniffer Braes and Paisley town centre.
Foxbar is a district of Paisley, bordered by the Gleniffer Braes and Paisley town centre. Consisting mostly of residential areas, Foxbar has rapidly grown over the past century to be one of the largest housing areas in the town.
The local authority has invested significantly in the area, which nowadays boasts multiple community centres, public parks and social areas.
Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Worth seeing in and around Foxbar
10 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.
- 01St. Mirren Park
St Mirren Park, also known as The Marbill Coaches Stadium for sponsorship reasons, is a football stadium in Paisley, Scotland. It is the home of St Mirren F.C. The stadium is the sixth home of the club and replaced Love Street.
3.6 km · sports stadium in Paisley, Scotland · Wikipedia - 02Paisley Abbey
Paisley Abbey is a parish church of the Church of Scotland on the east bank of the White Cart Water in the centre of the town of Paisley, Renfrewshire, about 7 miles west of Glasgow, in Scotland. Replacing a church of the 8th century, the abbey church was founded as a Cluniac priory in 1163, with the present Gothic building dating from the 14th and 19th centuries.
3.9 km · church in Paisley, Scotland · Wikipedia - 03Coats Observatory
Coats Observatory is Scotland's oldest public observatory. It is currently closed for refurbishment as part of a 4-year long £42m transformation of the observatory and museum buildings.
3.5 km · astronomical observatory in Renfrewshire, Scotland, UK · Wikipedia - 04Paisley Museum
Paisley Museum and Art Galleries is a museum in Paisley, Scotland. It is currently closed for refurbishment and is due to reopen in 2026 only with the title of Paisley Museum.
3.5 km · museum in Renfrewshire, Scotland, United Kingdom · Wikipedia - 05Thomas Coats Memorial Baptist Church
Coats Paisley is a reception hall which stands at the west end of the High Street in Paisley, Scotland. The building was the home of Thomas Coats Memorial Baptist Church, colloquially known as the Baptist Cathedral of Europe, until 2018.
3.4 km · church in Renfrewshire, Scotland, UK · Wikipedia - 06Johnstone Castle
Johnstone Castle is a structure and former mansion in the town of Johnstone in Renfrewshire, Scotland. It belonged to the Houstons of Milliken, who acquired the estate of Easter Cochrane in 1773.
2.9 km · castle in Renfrewshire, Scotland, UK · Wikipedia - 07St Matthew's Church
St Matthew's Church in Paisley is notable for its Art Nouveau architecture by WD McLennan, and stained glass window by Robert Anning Bell. The church was built between 1905 and 1907 and shares a small traffic island on Gordon Street with a fire station.
3.6 km · church in Paisley, Scotland · Wikipedia - 08Paisley War Memorial
Paisley War Memorial, also known as Paisley Cenotaph, is a war memorial in at the centre of Paisley, Renfrewshire, Scotland. It was unveiled in 1924, became a Category B listed building in 1980, and was upgraded to Category A in 1997.
3.8 km · war memorial in Paisley, Renfrewshire, Scotland, UK · Wikipedia - 09Stanely Castle
Stanely Castle is located in the waters of Stanely Reservoir, to the south of Paisley, Scotland, at the foot of the Gleniffer Braes. It was probably built in the early 15th century, on an island within a marsh.
700 m · castle in Renfrewshire, Scotland, UK · Wikipedia - 10Blackhall Manor
Blackhall Manor is a tower house in Paisley in Renfrewshire, in the western central Lowlands of Scotland. It dates to the sixteenth century, although parts may be older, and formerly belonged to the Stewart or Shaw-Stewart family.
3.8 km · tower house in Scotland · Wikipedia
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Getting to Foxbar
- Airports
- Glasgow (GLA), 6 km · Glasgow Prestwick (PIK), 36 km · Edinburgh (EDI), 70 km
- Stations
- Paisley Gilmour Street railway station, 3.9 km · Paisley Canal railway station, 3.4 km · Paisley St James railway station, 3.8 km · Johnstone railway station, 2.9 km · Elderslie railway station, 2.2 km
- Ingliston, Edinburgh → Foxbar70 km · quickest by road, 1h 34m · £7–10
- Belfast → Foxbar165 km · quickest by road, 14h 21m · £75–95
- Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear → Foxbar203 km · quickest by road, 4h · £23–31
- 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 Foxbar
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 Foxbar. 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.
From Wikivoyage: Glasgow, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.
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Foxbar is 14 km from Glasgow, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
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