Hillington, Scotland
Hillington is an area on the southwestern edge of the Scottish city of Glasgow comprising a residential neighbourhood and a large industrial suburb.
Hillington is an area on the southwestern edge of the Scottish city of Glasgow comprising a residential neighbourhood and a large industrial suburb. While the residential area is wholly within Glasgow, the greater part of the industrial estate on the other side of the Inverclyde Line railway tracks falls under the jurisdiction of neighbouring Renfrew, although uses a Glasgow postcode.
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Worth seeing in and around Hillington, Scotland
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.
- 01Ibrox Stadium
Ibrox Stadium is a football stadium on the south side of the River Clyde in the Ibrox area of Glasgow, Scotland. The home of Scottish Premiership team Rangers, Ibrox is the third-largest football stadium in Scotland, with an all-seated capacity of 51,700.
3.3 km · football stadium in Glasgow, Scotland, UK · Wikipedia - 02Riverside Museum
The Riverside Museum is a museum in the Partick area of Glasgow, Scotland, housed in a building designed by Zaha Hadid Architects, with its River Clyde frontage at the new Pointhouse Quay. It forms part of the Glasgow Harbour regeneration project.
3.8 km · Transport museum in Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom · Wikipedia - 03Roman Catholic Diocese of Paisley
The Diocese of Paisley is an ecclesiastical territory or diocese of the Latin Church of the Catholic Church in Scotland. Erected on 25 May 1947 from the Archdiocese of Glasgow, the diocese covers the historic county of Renfrewshire and is 580 km2 in area making it the smallest diocese by area in Scotland.
3.4 km · diocese of the Catholic Church in the Scotland · Wikipedia - 04St Mirin's Cathedral
The Cathedral Church of Saint Mirin in Paisley, dedicated to Saint Mirin the patron saint of Paisley, is the mother church of the Catholic Diocese of Paisley and is the seat of the Bishop of Paisley.
3.5 km · church in Renfrewshire, Scotland, UK · Wikipedia - 05Paisley Abbey
Paisley Abbey is a parish church of the Church of Scotland on the east bank of the White Cart Water in the centre of the town of Paisley, Renfrewshire, about 7 miles west of Glasgow, in Scotland. Replacing a church of the 8th century, the abbey church was founded as a Cluniac priory in 1163, with the present Gothic building dating from the 14th and 19th centuries.
3.7 km · church in Paisley, Scotland · Wikipedia - 06Crookston Castle
Crookston Castle is a ruined medieval castle in the Pollok area of Glasgow, Scotland. It is located some five miles south-west of the city centre, on a hill overlooking the Levern Water, just before its confluence with the White Cart Water.
1.8 km · ringwork castle in Glasgow City, Scotland, UK · Wikipedia - 07Pollok House
Pollok House, formerly the family seat of the Stirling-Maxwell family, is located at Pollok Country Park in Glasgow, Scotland.
3.7 km · category A listed building in Glasgow, Scotland, UK · Wikipedia - 081902 Ibrox disaster
The 1902 Ibrox disaster was the collapse of a stand at Ibrox Park in Govan, Scotland. The collapse caused the deaths of 25 supporters, and injuries to 500 more during an international association football match between Scotland and England on 5 April 1902 as part of the 1901–02 British Home Championship.
3.2 km · stadium structural failure in Glasgow, Scotland · Wikipedia - 09Bellahouston Park
Bellahouston Park is a public park in the Bellahouston district on the South Side of Glasgow, Scotland, between the areas of Craigton, Dumbreck, Ibrox and Mosspark covering an area of 71 hectares. The main part of Bellahouston Park was acquired by Glasgow Corporation in 1895 for the sum of £50,000, and opened to the public in 1896.
2.9 km · public park in Glasgow, Scotland, UK · Wikipedia - 10Diocese of Glasgow and Galloway
The Diocese of Glasgow and Galloway is one of the seven dioceses of the Scottish Episcopal Church. It covers Dumfries and Galloway, Ayrshire, Lanarkshire, Dunbartonshire, Renfrewshire and west Stirlingshire.
3.8 km · one of seven dioceses of the Scottish Episcopal Church · Wikipedia
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Getting to Hillington, Scotland
- Airports
- Glasgow (GLA), 5 km · Glasgow Prestwick (PIK), 41 km · Edinburgh (EDI), 63 km
- Stations
- Paisley Gilmour Street railway station, 4 km · Ibrox subway station, 3.6 km · Partick station, 3.9 km · Hillington West railway station, 800 m · Mosspark railway station, 1.4 km
- Prestwick, South Ayrshire → Hillington, Scotland42 km · quickest by road, 1h · £4.5–6
- Ingliston, Edinburgh → Hillington, Scotland63 km · quickest by road, 1h 21m · £7–9
- Belfast → Hillington, Scotland171 km · quickest by road, 14h 10m · £70–95
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No local-transport research exists yet for Hillington, Scotland
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 Hillington, Scotland. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- 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.
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Next door to Hillington, Scotland
Hillington, Scotland is 7 km from Glasgow, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.