Gartcosh
Gartcosh is a village in North Lanarkshire, Scotland.
Gartcosh is a village in North Lanarkshire, Scotland. The village lies about 8 miles east of Glasgow, and about 1 mile northwest of the town of Coatbridge.
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Worth seeing in and around Gartcosh
4 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.
- 01Bedlay Castle
Bedlay Castle is a former defensive castle, dating from the late 16th and 17th centuries. It is located between Chryston and Moodiesburn in North Lanarkshire, Scotland.
2.2 km · castle in North Lanarkshire, 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.
3.7 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.
3.4 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.
3.1 km · country park near Coatbridge, North Lanarkshire, Scotland, UK · Wikipedia
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Getting to Gartcosh
- Airports
- Glasgow (GLA), 22 km · Edinburgh (EDI), 45 km · Glasgow Prestwick (PIK), 53 km
- Stations
- Easterhouse railway station, 3.3 km · Stepps railway station, 3.5 km · Blairhill railway station, 3.4 km · Gartcosh railway station, 400 m
- Ingliston, Edinburgh → Gartcosh45 km · quickest by road, 1h · £5–7
- Prestwick, South Ayrshire → Gartcosh55 km · quickest by road, 1h 19m · £6–8
- Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear → Gartcosh186 km · quickest by road, 3h 35m · £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 Gartcosh
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 Gartcosh. 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 Gartcosh – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.
Next door to Gartcosh
Gartcosh is 11 km from Glasgow, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
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- Muirheadtown in North Lanarkshire, Scotland, UK2.1 km
- Easterhousehousing estate and suburb of Glasgow, Scotland, UK2.6 km