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Glenmavis

Glenmavis is a village in the North Lanarkshire area of Scotland.

Glenmavis
Glenmavis · James Reid, Glenmavis Distillery, Bathgate
The place

Glenmavis is a village in the North Lanarkshire area of Scotland. It is about two miles northwest of Airdrie on the B802 road. It has a population of around

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Glenmavis

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.

  1. 01
    Excelsior Stadium

    The Excelsior Stadium, officially The Albert Bartlett Stadium for sponsorship reasons, is a football stadium in Airdrie, North Lanarkshire, Scotland. It is the home ground of Airdrieonians of the Scottish Professional Football League.

    3.7 km · football stadium in North Lanarkshire, Scotland, UK · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Cliftonhill

    Cliftonhill Stadium, commonly known as Cliftonhill and currently 'The Reigart Stadium' for sponsorship purposes, is a football stadium in Coatbridge, North Lanarkshire, Scotland. It is the home ground of former Scottish Professional Football League team Albion Rovers F.C., who have played at the ground since 1919.

    2.9 km · stadium in North Lanarkshire, Scotland, UK · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Airdrie Public Observatory

    Airdrie Observatory is a fully operational, historic public astronomical observatory, which is part of the library building in the town of Airdrie, North Lanarkshire, Scotland. There are only four public observatories operating in the United Kingdom, all of which are in Scotland.

    2.4 km · Astronomical observatory in Airdrie, Scotland · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Broomfield Park

    Broomfield Park was a football stadium in Airdrie, North Lanarkshire, home of Airdrieonians from 1892 until it was closed after the 1993–94 football season.It was just 67 yards wide, and was built in a natural hollow. The record attendance at Broomfield Park was 24,000, in a Scottish Cup quarter-final match against Hearts on 8 March 1952.

    2.7 km · stadium in North Lanarkshire, Scotland, UK · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Airdrie Library

    Airdrie Library is a public library in Airdrie, North Lanarkshire, Scotland. The library has been housed in a number of buildings since its founding.

    2.3 km · public library and observatory in North Lanarkshire, Scotland, UK · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Summerlee Museum of Scottish Industrial Life

    Summerlee Museum of Scottish Industrial Life is an industrial and social history museum in Coatbridge, North Lanarkshire, Scotland. It is situated on the site of the Victorian Summerlee Iron Works and the former Hydrocon Crane factory.

    2.9 km · industrial and social history museum in Coatbridge, Scotland, United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    County Buildings, Airdrie

    County Buildings was a judicial building on Bank Street in Airdrie in Scotland. The building, which was the venue for hearings of the Airdrie Sheriff Court, was demolished in 1969.

    2.3 km · Judicial building in Scotland · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    Sir John Wilson Town Hall, Stirling Street, Airdrie

    Airdie Town Hall, also known as the Sir John Wilson Town Hall, is an events venue in Stirling Street, Airdrie, North Lanarkshire, Scotland. It is a Category B listed building.

    2.4 km · city hall in Airdrie, North Lanarkshire, Scotland, UK · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    Coatbridge College

    New College Lanarkshire Coatbridge Campus, previously the independent Coatbridge College, was Scotland’s oldest further education college, founded in 1865. The college has over 250 staff members and approximately 7,000 students.

    2.6 km · college building · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    Coatbridge Library

    Coatbridge Library is a public library in Coatbridge, North Lanarkshire, Scotland.

    3.1 km · public library in North Lanarkshire, Scotland, UK · 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.

Go there

Getting to Glenmavis

Airports
Glasgow (GLA), 27 km · Edinburgh (EDI), 40 km · Glasgow Prestwick (PIK), 56 km
Stations
Airdrie railway station, 2.6 km · Drumgelloch railway station, 3.6 km · Coatbridge Sunnyside railway station, 2.8 km · Whifflet railway station, 3.7 km · Coatbridge Central railway station, 3.3 km
  • Prestwick, South Ayrshire → Glenmavis
    58 km · quickest by road, 1h 30m · £6–9
  • Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear → Glenmavis
    181 km · quickest by road, 3h 42m · £22–29
  • Aberdeen → Glenmavis
    181 km · quickest by road, 3h 16m · £20–27
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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 Glenmavis

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

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inThe West Highland Line connects Glasgow with Oban (for ferries to Mull, Coll, Tiree and Colonsay), Fort William and Mallaig (for ferries to Skye and South Uist).
  • Get inThe other Hebrides ferry ports are linked by bus.
  • Get inA77 runs from Stranraer (for Northern Ireland ferries) via Ayr and Kilmarnock to Glasgow.

From Wikivoyage: Central Belt, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2024-10.

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  4. 04
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  5. 05
    The Small Isles - Eigg, Muck, Rum and CannaGB

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

Around it

Next door to Glenmavis

Glenmavis is 16 km from Glasgow, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

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