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Freuchie

Freuchie is a village in Fife, Scotland, at the foot of the Lomond Hills, and near Falkland.

Freuchie
Freuchie · Ross Burgess
The place

Freuchie is a village in Fife, Scotland, at the foot of the Lomond Hills, and near Falkland. The nearest major town is Glenrothes located 4 miles to the south.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Freuchie

5 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
    Falkland Palace

    Falkland Palace, in Falkland, Fife, Scotland, is a royal palace of the Scottish kings. It was one of the favourite places of Mary, Queen of Scots, who took refuge there from political and religious turmoil of her times.

    3.2 km · castle in Fife, Scotland, UK · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Brunton House, Brunton Street, Falkland

    Brunton House is a Category A listed building in the village of Falkland in Fife, Scotland. It was formerly the residence of the hereditary falconers to the Kings of Scotland.

    3.3 km · house in Falkirk, Fife, Scotland, UK · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Town Hall, High Street, Falkland

    Falkland Town Hall is a municipal building in the High Street, Falkland, Fife, Scotland. The structure, which has been converted for use as offices and as shops, is a Category A listed building.

    3.2 km · building in Fife, Scotland, UK · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Balbirnie Stone Circle

    Balbirnie Stone Circle is an archaeological site, a stone circle on the north-eastern edge of Glenrothes, in Fife, Scotland.

    3.8 km · archaeological site in Fife, Scotland · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Balfarg

    Balfarg is a prehistoric monument complex in Glenrothes, Fife, Scotland. It is protected as a scheduled monument.

    3.6 km · Neolithic henge monument · 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 Freuchie

Airports
Edinburgh (EDI), 36 km · Glasgow (GLA), 90 km · Aberdeen (ABZ), 121 km
Stations
Ladybank railway station, 3.6 km · Falkland Road railway station, 1 km
  • Glasgow → Freuchie
    80 km · quickest by road, 1h 57m · £9–12
  • Aberdeen → Freuchie
    119 km · quickest by road, 2h 32m · £12–16
  • Prestwick, South Ayrshire → Freuchie
    123 km · quickest by road, 2h 29m · £14–19
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Freuchie

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 Freuchie. 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

    144 km
  2. 02
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    146 km
  3. 03
    Isle of JuraGB

    10 ways of moving, 19 sources

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

    9 ways of moving, 20 sources

    211 km
  5. 05
    Isle of CollGB

    7 ways of moving, 16 sources

    215 km

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

Around it

Next door to Freuchie

Freuchie is 33 km from Edinburgh, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

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  • Balmalcolmvillage in Fife, Scotland, UK3.8 km