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Hardgate

Hardgate is a village in West Dunbartonshire, Scotland.

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The place

Hardgate is a village in West Dunbartonshire, Scotland.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Hardgate

5 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
    Erskine Bridge

    The Erskine Bridge is a multi span cable-stayed box girder bridge spanning the River Clyde in west central Scotland. The bridge connects West Dunbartonshire with Renfrewshire and can be used by all types of motor vehicles, cyclists and pedestrians.

    3.7 km · bridge in Renfrewshire/West Dunbartonshire, Scotland · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Q18618976

    The Renfrew Bridge is a road and pedestrian bridge spanning the River Clyde in West Dunbartonshire and Renfrewshire, built as part of the ongoing Clyde Waterfront Regeneration. Opened to the public on 9 May 2025, it is the first new crossing point on the Clyde since the Govan–Partick Bridge was built in 2024.

    3.7 km · bridge in Renfrew, Renfrewshire, Scotland, UK · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Kilbowie Park

    Kilbowie Park, also known as New Kilbowie Park, was a football stadium in Clydebank, Scotland. It was the home ground of Clydebank.

    2 km · football stadium in West Dunbartonshire, Scotland, UK · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Clydebank Museum

    Clydebank Museum in Clydebank, West Dunbartonshire, Scotland was opened in 1980 in the Clydebank Town Hall, and is operated by West Dunbartonshire Council. The themes of its collection are related to the area's local history, which includes shipbuilding at John Brown & Company and the work of the Scottish Colourists.

    2.3 km · maritime museum in West Dunbartonshire, Scotland, United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Forth and Cart Canal

    The Forth and Cart Canal was a short 1⁄2-mile link canal which provided a short cut between the Forth and Clyde Canal, at Whitecrook, and the River Clyde, opposite the mouth of the River Cart. It was intended to provide a transport link between the town of Paisley, the Firth of Forth and Port Dundas, Glasgow, without having to go via Bowling, some 7 miles downstream on the Clyde.

    2.6 km · canal in West Dunbartonshire, Scotland, UK (1836-1893) · 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 Hardgate

Airports
Glasgow (GLA), 6 km · Glasgow Prestwick (PIK), 48 km · Edinburgh (EDI), 64 km
Stations
Singer railway station, 1.6 km · Dalmuir railway station, 1.9 km · Yoker railway station, 3.4 km · Drumry railway station, 2.2 km · Kilpatrick railway station, 3.1 km
  • Prestwick, South Ayrshire → Hardgate
    49 km · quickest by road, 1h 15m · £6–8
  • Ingliston, Edinburgh → Hardgate
    36 km · quickest by road, 49 min · £4–5
  • Belfast → Hardgate
    139 km · quickest by road, 13h 2m · £65–85
  • From anywhere
    The planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
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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 Hardgate

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

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • 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.

From Wikivoyage: Glasgow, 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

    60 km
  2. 02
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    63 km
  3. 03
    Isle of JuraGB

    10 ways of moving, 19 sources

    89 km
  4. 04
    Isle of CollGB

    7 ways of moving, 16 sources

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

    9 ways of moving, 20 sources

    167 km

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

Around it

Next door to Hardgate

Hardgate is 11 km from Glasgow, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Clydebanktown in West Dunbartonshire, Scotland, UK2.5 km
  • Duntochervillage in West Dunbartonshire, Scotland, UK1.5 km
  • Old Kilpatrickvillage in West Dunbartonshire, Scotland, UK3.5 km
  • Dalmuirvillage in West Dunbartonshire, Scotland, UK2.4 km
  • Clydebank Blitz1941 WWII aerial bombardment of city in Scotland2.5 km
  • Drumchapeldistrict in Glasgow City, Scotland, UK3.2 km