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Lenzie

Lenzie is a small town, by the Glasgow Railway in the East Dunbartonshire council area and the historic county of Dunbartonshire in Scotland.

Lenzie
Lenzie · Rosser1954
The place

Lenzie is a small town, by the Glasgow Railway in the East Dunbartonshire council area and the historic county of Dunbartonshire in Scotland. It is about 6 miles (10 km) north-east of Glasgow city centre and 1 mile (2 km) south of Kirkintilloch. At the 2011 census, it had a population of 8,873. The ancient barony of Lenzie was held by William de Comyn, Baron of Lenzie and Lord of Cumbernauld in the 12th century.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Lenzie

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.

  1. 01
    University of the West of Scotland

    The University of the West of Scotland, formerly the University of Paisley, is a public university with four campuses in south-western Scotland, in the towns of Paisley, Blantyre, Dumfries and Ayr, as well as a campus in London, England. The present institution dates from August 2007, following the merger of the University of Paisley with Bell College, Hamilton.

    5.1 km · UK university (2007-) · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Luggie Aqueduct

    The Luggie Aqueduct carries the Forth & Clyde Canal over the Luggie Water at Kirkintilloch, to the north of Glasgow. It is a Category A listed building.

    1.9 km · navigable aqueduct north of Glasgow, Scotland · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Auld Aisle Cemetery

    The Auld Aisle Cemetery is located in Kirkintilloch, East Dunbartonshire, Scotland. The cemetery is protected as a category A listed building, and includes graves dating back to the eighteenth century.

    1.3 km · cemetery in East Dunbartonshire, Scotland, UK · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Bedlay Castle

    Bedlay Castle is a former defensive castle, dating from the late 16th and 17th centuries. It is located between Chryston and Moodiesburn in North Lanarkshire, Scotland.

    4.1 km · castle in North Lanarkshire, Scotland, UK · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Springburn Winter Garden

    The Springburn Winter Gardens is a former large winter garden located at Springburn Park in the Springburn district of the Scottish city of Glasgow, constructed in 1900.

    6 km · winter garden in Glasgow, Scotland, UK · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    St Cyprian's Church, Lenzie

    St Cyprian's Church is an episcopal church in Beech road, Lenzie, East Dunbartonshire, Scotland. It was built in 1873 by Alexander Ross of Inverness and cost around £2600.

    600 m · church in East Dunbartonshire, Scotland, UK · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Glasgow Fort

    Glasgow Fort is a large out-of-town shopping and leisure park in Glasgow, Scotland, just off Junction 10 of the M8 motorway which runs to the south, surrounded by the residential areas of Provanhall, Garthamlock and Easterhouse. It was opened in 2004 built on land which had been part of Auchinlea Park which still exists to its immediate east.

    5.8 km · shopping mall in Glasgow, Scotland, UK · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    Provan Hall

    Provan Hall is a historic place composed of two buildings built about the 15th century and situated in Auchinlea Park, Easterhouse, Glasgow. It is owned by the National Trust for Scotland and leased by Glasgow City Council.

    5.9 km · house in Glasgow City, Scotland, UK · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    Lenzie Old Parish Church

    Lenzie Old Parish Church is a listed church in the town of Lenzie in Dunbartonshire, Scotland. The church, originally a chapel of ease, was completed in 1874.

    100 m · church building in East Dunbartonshire, Scotland, UK · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    Gadloch

    The Gadloch is a fresh water loch in North Lanarkshire, situated near the town of Lenzie, Scotland. To the south of the loch is the small village of Auchinloch.

    1.2 km · lake in North Lanarkshire, Scotland, UK · 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.

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Getting to Lenzie

Airports
Glasgow (GLA), 18 km · Edinburgh (EDI), 49 km · Glasgow Prestwick (PIK), 54 km
Stations
Lenzie railway station, 200 m · Stepps railway station, 3.7 km · Bishopbriggs railway station, 5 km · Back O'Loch Halt railway station, 1.2 km · Kirkintilloch railway station, 2 km
  • Ingliston, Edinburgh → Lenzie
    49 km · quickest by road, 1h 10m · £6–8
  • Prestwick, South Ayrshire → Lenzie
    56 km · quickest by road, 1h 19m · £6–8
  • Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear → Lenzie
    192 km · quickest by road, 3h 47m · £22–30
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Lenzie

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 Lenzie. 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

    73 km
  2. 02
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    78 km
  3. 03
    Isle of JuraGB

    10 ways of moving, 19 sources

    105 km
  4. 04
    Isle of CollGB

    7 ways of moving, 16 sources

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

    9 ways of moving, 20 sources

    178 km

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Around it

Next door to Lenzie

Lenzie is 9 km from Glasgow, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Kirkintillochtown in East Dunbartonshire, Scotland, UK1.4 km
  • Bishopbriggstown in East Dunbartonshire, Scotland, UK4.9 km
  • Milton of Campsievillage in East Dunbartonshire, Scotland, UK4.6 km
  • Torrancevillage in East Dunbartonshire, Scotland, UK4.1 km
  • Steppstown in North Lanarkshire, Scotland, UK3.6 km
  • Gartcoshvillage in North Lanarkshire, Scotland, UK5.9 km