Lochgelly
Worth seeing in and around Lochgelly
4 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.
- 01Central Park, Cowdenbeath
Central Park also known as The Racewall is a multi-use stadium in Cowdenbeath, Fife, Scotland, used for football and stock car racing. It is situated in the centre of the town, just off the High Street, and has a capacity of 4,309.
3.2 km · football stadium in Cowdenbeath, Scotland · Wikipedia - 02Loch Gelly
Loch Gelly is a small loch in Fife, Scotland lying approximately 1.5 km to the south east of the town of Lochgelly which itself is named after the loch. The Gaelic name of the loch, Loch Gheallaidh, can be loosely translated as Loch of Shining Waters or Loch of Brightness.
1.9 km · small lake in Fife, Scotland, UK, outflows east to Gelly Burn · Wikipedia - 03Hallyards Palace
Hallyards Castle or Halyards, located to the north-west of the village of Auchtertool, is reputed to have been a hunting seat of Malcolm Canmore.
3.3 km · castle in Fife, Scotland, UK · Wikipedia - 04Lochore Castle
Lochore Castle is a ruined 14th-century tower house, about 3 miles south east of Cowdenbeath, Fife, Scotland, and south of Lochore, east of Loch Ore, in Lochore Country Park. Little remains of the castle, which was originally on the island of Inchgall, the name meaning “Isle of Strangers”.
2.5 km · castle in Fife, Scotland, UK · Wikipedia
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Getting to Lochgelly
- Airports
- Edinburgh (EDI), 20 km · Glasgow (GLA), 75 km · Glasgow Prestwick (PIK), 105 km
- Stations
- Lochgelly railway station, 800 m · Cardenden railway station, 3.3 km · Cowdenbeath railway station, 2.8 km
- Glasgow → Lochgelly66 km · quickest by road, 1h 35m · £7–10
- Prestwick, South Ayrshire → Lochgelly107 km · quickest by road, 2h 31m · £12–17
- Aberdeen → Lochgelly135 km · quickest by road, 2h 32m · £14–19
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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.
No local-transport research exists yet for Lochgelly
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 Lochgelly. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inFrom 1847 to 1890 the world's first ro-ro ferry plied across the Forth between Burntisland and Granton near Edinburgh: railway trucks were shunted on and off the ferry without needing unloading, while passengers walked.
- Get inDr Bell of Edinburgh, one of the main inspirations for Sherlock Holmes, once theatrically deduced that a patient had come by this ferry by the nature of the mud on his boots.
From Wikivoyage: Burntisland, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.
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Next door to Lochgelly
Lochgelly is 21 km from Edinburgh, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Cowdenbeathtown and burgh in west Fife, Scotland, UK3.2 km
- Cardendentown in Fife, Scotland, UK3.7 km
- Auchterderranvillage in Fife, Scotland, UK2.8 km
- Crosshillvillage in Fife, Scotland, UK2.7 km
- Glencraigvillage in Fife, Scotland, UK1.5 km
- Lochorevillage in Fife, Scotland, UK3.2 km