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Human settlement in Scotland · United Kingdom

# Haggs

Haggs is a small village in the Falkirk council area of Scotland.

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Haggs · Steffen Schmitz

The place

Haggs is a small village in the Falkirk council area of Scotland. The village is situated 2.1 miles (3.4 km) south-west of Bonnybridge, 4.6 miles (7.4 km) north-northeast of Kilsyth and 2.0 miles (3.2 km) south-southwest of Denny, on the east side of the M80 motorway which separates it from Banknock.

Adapted from [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haggs), CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

## Worth seeing in and around Haggs

3 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. Cumbernauld House Cumbernauld House is an 18th-century country house located in Cumbernauld, Scotland. It is located near in the Cumbernauld Glen, close to Cumbernauld Village, at grid reference NS772759. 3.7 km · house in North Lanarkshire, Scotland, UK · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cumbernauld_House)
2. Castle Cary Castle Castle Cary Castle is a fifteenth-century tower house near Castlecary, about 6 miles from Falkirk in Scotland. It is less than 3 miles from Cumbernauld Village. 1.7 km · 15th-century tower house in Scotland · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castle_Cary_Castle)
3. Denny Town House Denny Town House is a municipal building in Glasgow Road, Denny, Falkirk, Scotland. The structure is used by Falkirk Council for the provision of local services. 3.8 km · municipal Building in Scotland · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denny_Town_House)

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 Haggs

**Airports:** Glasgow (GLA), 33 km · Edinburgh (EDI), 36 km · Glasgow Prestwick (PIK), 67 km\
**Stations:** Cumbernauld Airport, 2.8 km · Banknock railway station, 1.2 km\

- Prestwick, South Ayrshire → Haggs 69 km · quickest by road, 1h 9m · £7–10 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/prestwick-south-ayrshire-to-haggs) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Prestwick%2C+South+Ayrshire&to=Haggs)
- Aberdeen → Haggs 171 km · quickest by road, 2h 33m · £19–25 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/aberdeen-to-haggs) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Aberdeen&to=Haggs)
- Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear → Haggs 185 km · quickest by road, 3h 12m · £23–30 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/newcastle-upon-tyne-tyne-and-wear-to-haggs) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Newcastle+upon+Tyne%2C+Tyne+and+Wear&to=Haggs)
- From anywhere The planner compares every way there from wherever you are. [Plan a trip](https://www.mixroutes.com/?to=Haggs)

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 Haggs

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

What Wikivoyage says about moving around

- Get in The 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 in The other Hebrides ferry ports are linked by bus.
- Get in A77 runs from Stranraer (for Northern Ireland ferries) via Ayr and Kilmarnock to Glasgow.

From [Wikivoyage: Central Belt](https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Central_Belt), CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2024-10.

The nearest places where the work is done

1. [Isle of Arran](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/isle-of-arran) GB 10 ways of moving, 36 sources 88 km
2. [Tarbert, Loch Fyne and Kintyre](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/tarbert-loch-fyne) GB 9 ways of moving, 15 sources 92 km
3. [Isle of Jura](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/isle-of-jura) GB 10 ways of moving, 19 sources 118 km
4. [Isle of Coll](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/coll) GB 7 ways of moving, 16 sources 177 km
5. [The Small Isles - Eigg, Muck, Rum and Canna](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/small-isles) GB 9 ways of moving, 20 sources 184 km

If you know how people move in Haggs – the stand, the rule, the fare – [tell us](https://www.mixroutes.com/report?key=blog%7Chaggs&title=Haggs&sub=Field+notes&back=%2Fnotes%2Fhaggs), and the note gets an entry.

Around it

## Next door to Haggs

Haggs is 24 km from [Glasgow](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/glasgow), the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

- [Bonnybridge](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/bonnybridge) town in Falkirk, Scotland, UK 3.7 km
- [Denny](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/denny) town in Falkirk, Scotland, UK 3.7 km
- [Banknock](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/banknock) village in Falkirk, Scotland, UK 900 m
- [Castlecary](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/castlecary) village in North Lanarkshire, Scotland, UK 1.3 km
- [Greenhill](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/greenhill) village in Falkirk, Scotland, UK 3 km
- [Allandale](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/allandale) village in Falkirk, Scotland, UK 1.1 km

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