Kilbarchan
Kilbarchan is a village and civil parish in central Renfrewshire, in the west central Lowlands of Scotland.
Kilbarchan is a village and civil parish in central Renfrewshire, in the west central Lowlands of Scotland. It is almost contiguous with Johnstone, about 5 miles or 8 km west of the centre of Paisley. The village's name means "cell (chapel) of St. Barchan". It is known for its former weaving industry.
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Worth seeing in and around Kilbarchan
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.
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Getting to Kilbarchan
- Airports
- Glasgow (GLA), 9 km · Glasgow Prestwick (PIK), 37 km · Edinburgh (EDI), 75 km
- Stations
- Milliken Park railway station, 1.8 km · Howwood railway station, 2.9 km · Johnstone railway station, 3.2 km · Johnstone North railway station, 2.5 km · Bridge of Weir railway station, 2.3 km
- Ingliston, Edinburgh → Kilbarchan75 km · quickest by road, 1h 32m · £8–10
- Belfast → Kilbarchan163 km · quickest by road, 14h 19m · £75–95
- Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear → Kilbarchan209 km · quickest by road, 3h 58m · £24–32
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Kilbarchan
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 Kilbarchan. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inThey continue southwest to Dalry and Kilwinning, where they diverge either to Irvine, Troon, Prestwick Airport and town and Ayr, or to Stevenston, Saltcoats and Ardrossan (for ferries to the Isle of Arran), with some continuing to West Kilbride and Largs.
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Next door to Kilbarchan
Kilbarchan is 19 km from Glasgow, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
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