Glenrothes

Worth seeing in and around Glenrothes

9 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
   Balgonie Castle

   Balgonie Castle is located on the south bank of the River Leven near Milton of Balgonie, 3.5 kilometres east of Glenrothes, Fife, Scotland. The castle keep dates from the 14th century, and the remaining structures were added piecemeal until the 18th century.

   4.3 km · castle in Fife, Scotland, UK · Wikipedia
2. 02
   Leslie House

   Leslie House is a Category A listed historic building located in Glenrothes, Fife. It is the largest and earliest Restoration house in Fife, Scotland, and was the seat of the Earls of Rothes for over 250 years.

   1.2 km · country house in Leslie, Fife, Scotland, UK · Wikipedia
3. 03
   Balbirnie House

   Balbirnie House is an early 19th-century country house in Glenrothes, in central Fife, Scotland. The present house was completed in 1817 as a rebuild of an 18th-century building, itself a replacement for a 17th-century dwelling.

   2.4 km · country house in Markinch parish, 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.

   2.3 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.

   2.2 km · Neolithic henge monument · Wikipedia
6. 06
   Fife House, Glenrothes

   Fife House, formerly Glenrothes House, is a large office development on North Street in Glenrothes, Fife, Scotland. It was built for Glenrothes Development Corporation in 1969, then became the headquarters of Fife Regional Council from shortly after its formation in 1975 and then became the offices and meeting place of Fife Council in 1996.

   200 m · municipal Building in Scotland · Wikipedia
7. 07
   Riverside Park, Glenrothes

   Riverside Park is a large town park situated in Glenrothes, Fife. The park straddles the River Leven valley riparian corridor, comprising significant areas of woodland, grassed playing fields and wetlands.

   500 m · park in Fife, Scotland, UK · Wikipedia
8. 08
   Kingdom Shopping Centre

   The Kingdom Shopping Centre is an indoor retail and commercial complex in Glenrothes, located in the town centre. It is the largest indoor shopping centre in Fife and is one of the largest single-level indoor shopping centres in Scotland with around 36,000 m2 of floorspace.

   400 m · shopping destination in Glenrothes, Scotland · Wikipedia
9. 09
   The River Leven Suspension Bridge

   The River Leven Suspension Bridge, better know locally as The White Bridge, is a suspension bridge in Glenrothes that carries the B969 distributor road over the River Leven and the Riverside Park. The bridge was designed by Nicoll Russell Studios and was opened in 1995.

   1 km · bridge in Glenrothes, Fife, Scotland · Wikipedia

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What Wikivoyage says to see

New Town architecture: Glenrothes is one of the better examples of a Scottish New Town, with low rise buildings and lots of green space; it doesn't have the slabby blocks of flats or alienating highways of others. Still, an acquired taste.

1. 01
   Balgonie Castle

   The keep is from the 14th century and has been restored, so later additions are the worse ruined.

2. 02
   Falkland Palace

   This is a fun palace with a dark history, built in the 12th century but taking its present Renaissance style from 1500.

3. 03
   Backhouse Rossie Estate

   Extensive gardens in a former royal hunting ground.

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Things to do

Rothes Halls in Kingdom Shopping Centre is the main performing arts venue, with concerts, comedy, drama and panto. Cinema: Kino Cinema are also in the shopping centre. They've another cinema in Leven. Golf courses are at Glenrothes GC, Leslie GC, Balbirnie Park and Thornton GC. There's another at Falkland, and lots more on the coast around Kirkcaldy and Leven.

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Where to eat

Just the usual fast food takeaways in town centre. You'll do better in the pubs or hotels, see below.

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Getting to Glenrothes

Airports

Edinburgh (EDI), 30 km · Glasgow (GLA), 86 km · Glasgow Prestwick (PIK), 117 km

Stations

Fife Airport, 3.1 km · Glenrothes with Thornton railway station, 4.5 km · Markinch railway station, 2.9 km · Falkland Road railway station, 4.8 km

• Glasgow → Glenrothes

  77 km · quickest by road, 1h 49m · £9–12
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• Prestwick, South Ayrshire → Glenrothes

  119 km · quickest by road, 2h 22m · £14–18
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• Aberdeen → Glenrothes

  124 km · quickest by road, 2h 40m · £13–17
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No local-transport research exists yet for Glenrothes

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

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