Holytown

Worth seeing in and around Holytown

8 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
   Roman Catholic Diocese of Motherwell

   Diocese of the Catholic Church in the Scotland

   3.3 km · Wikipedia
2. 02
   Motherwell Cathedral

   Church in North Lanarkshire, Scotland, UK

   3.3 km · Wikipedia
3. 03
   Monkland Canal

   Canal in Glasgow, Scotland, UK

   2.3 km · Wikipedia
4. 04
   Carfin Grotto

   Shrine in North Lanarkshire, Scotland, UK

   1.9 km · Wikipedia
5. 05
   Dalziel Park

   Stadium in North Lanarkshire, Scotland, UK

   2.9 km · Wikipedia
6. 06
   New College Lanarkshire

   College in North Lanarkshire, Scotland, UK

   4 km · Wikipedia
7. 07
   Bellshill Central Parish church

   Church in Bellshill, United Kingdom

   2.7 km · Wikipedia
8. 08
   Brandon Shopping Centre

   Outdoor shopping centre in Motherwell, Scotland

   3.6 km · 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.

Getting to Holytown

Airports

Glasgow (GLA), 29 km · Edinburgh (EDI), 40 km · Glasgow Prestwick (PIK), 52 km

Stations

Motherwell railway station, 3.4 km · Holytown railway station, 800 m · Carfin railway station, 1.8 km · Bellshill railway station, 3.2 km · Newhouse railway station, 3.3 km

• Ingliston, Edinburgh → Holytown

  41 km · quickest by road, 49 min · £4–5
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• Prestwick, South Ayrshire → Holytown

  54 km · quickest by road, 1h 23m · £6–8
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• Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear → Holytown

  176 km · quickest by road, 3h 34m · £21–28
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No local-transport research exists yet for Holytown

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

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