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Glencorse

Glencorse is a parish of Midlothian, Scotland, lying 7 miles south of Edinburgh.

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The place

Glencorse is a parish of Midlothian, Scotland, lying 7 miles south of Edinburgh. It is bounded on the north-west by the former parish of Colinton now within the City of Edinburgh, to the north and west by Lasswade and to the south and west by Penicuik.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Getting to Glencorse

Airports
Edinburgh (EDI), 15 km · Glasgow (GLA), 77 km · Glasgow Prestwick (PIK), 94 km
  • Glasgow → Glencorse
    19 km · quickest by road, 37 min · £2–3
  • Prestwick, South Ayrshire → Glencorse
    39 km · quickest by road, 1h 1m · £4.5–6
  • Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear → Glencorse
    140 km · quickest by road, 3h 6m · £18–24
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Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.

Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Glencorse

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

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Go nextMost onward routes involve connecting via Edinburgh, but another day trip is to take the train south from Eskbank to Tweedbank.

From Wikivoyage: Dalkeith, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.

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

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    125 km
  2. 02
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    137 km
  3. 03
    Isle of JuraGB

    10 ways of moving, 19 sources

    164 km
  4. 04
    Isle of CollGB

    7 ways of moving, 16 sources

    225 km
  5. 05
    The Small Isles - Eigg, Muck, Rum and CannaGB

    9 ways of moving, 20 sources

    230 km

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

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Next door to Glencorse

Glencorse is 11 km from Edinburgh, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.