--- title: "Maddiston – what is there, and how you get there | Mixroutes" description: "Maddiston, United Kingdom: Maddiston is a village in the Falkirk council area of Scotland. Nearby: Avon Aqueduct, Almond Castle, Mumrills Roman fort.…" url: "https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/maddiston" markdown: "https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/maddiston.md" image: "https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/ba/Fox%2C_Vulpes_Vulpes_%2825690157818%29.jpg/1920px-Fox%2C_Vulpes_Vulpes_%2825690157818%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail" --- Human settlement in Scotland · United Kingdom # Maddiston Maddiston is a village in the Falkirk council area of Scotland. ![Maddiston](https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/ba/Fox%2C_Vulpes_Vulpes_%2825690157818%29.jpg/1920px-Fox%2C_Vulpes_Vulpes_%2825690157818%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) Maddiston · Mike Smith The place Maddiston is a village in the Falkirk council area of Scotland. It lies 3.8 miles (6.1 km) west-southwest of Linlithgow, 1.3 miles (2.1 km) south of Polmont and 0.6 miles (1.0 km) south-east of Rumford at the south-east edge of the Falkirk urban area. Adapted from [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maddiston), CC BY-SA 4.0. What is there ## Worth seeing in and around Maddiston 5 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. Avon Aqueduct The Avon Aqueduct is a navigable aqueduct that carries the Union Canal over the River Avon, near Linlithgow, Scotland. 2.7 km · navigable aqueduct between Falkirk and West Lothian, Scotland · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avon_Aqueduct) 2. Almond Castle Almond Castle is a ruined L-plan castle dating from the 15th century. It is located 3 miles west of Linlithgow, and north of the Union Canal, in Falkirk, Scotland. 1.7 km · castle in Falkirk, Scotland, UK · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Almond_Castle) 3. Mumrills Roman fort Mumrills was the site of the largest Roman fort on the Antonine Wall in Scotland. It is possible that Mumrills could exchange signals with Flavian Gask Ridge forts. 3.7 km · site of Roman fort on the Antonine Wall near Falkirk in central Scotland · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mumrills) 4. Grandsable Cemetery Grandsable Cemetery lies east of Falkirk, between the A9 and A803 south of Grangemouth near Polmont. It lies on a small hill with views over the Firth of Forth. 3.2 km · cemetery east of Falkirk, Scotland · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grandsable_Cemetery) 5. Muiravonside Country Park Muiravonside Country Park is 170 acres of woodland and parkland open to the public all year round with marked trails, picnic sites and a play area. It is situated in the south-east corner of Falkirk, approximately 1 mile south of Maddiston, 2 miles south-east of Linlithgow and about 4 miles north of Armadale and Bathgate. 2.8 km · park in Falkirk, Scotland, UK · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muiravonside_Country_Park) 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. Go there ## Getting to Maddiston **Airports:** Edinburgh (EDI), 20 km · Glasgow (GLA), 47 km · Glasgow Prestwick (PIK), 76 km\ **Stations:** Polmont railway station, 2 km · Birkhill railway station, 3.5 km\ - Glasgow → Maddiston 37 km · quickest by road, 45 min · £5–6 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/glasgow-to-maddiston) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Glasgow&to=Maddiston) - Prestwick, South Ayrshire → Maddiston 78 km · quickest by road, 1h 26m · £9–12 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/prestwick-south-ayrshire-to-maddiston) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Prestwick%2C+South+Ayrshire&to=Maddiston) - Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear → Maddiston 172 km · quickest by road, 3h 3m · £21–28 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/newcastle-upon-tyne-tyne-and-wear-to-maddiston) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Newcastle+upon+Tyne%2C+Tyne+and+Wear&to=Maddiston) - From anywhere The planner compares every way there from wherever you are. [Plan a trip](https://www.mixroutes.com/?to=Maddiston) Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds. Not yet researched ## No local-transport research exists yet for Maddiston 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 Maddiston. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more. What Wikivoyage says about moving around - Get in Grangemouth Docks are busy with freight but never had ferries. From [Wikivoyage: Polmont](https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Polmont), CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09. The nearest places where the work is done 1. [Isle of Arran](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/isle-of-arran) GB 10 ways of moving, 36 sources 100 km 2. [Tarbert, Loch Fyne and Kintyre](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/tarbert-loch-fyne) GB 9 ways of moving, 15 sources 107 km 3. [Isle of Jura](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/isle-of-jura) GB 10 ways of moving, 19 sources 133 km 4. [Isle of Coll](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/coll) GB 7 ways of moving, 16 sources 192 km 5. [The Small Isles - Eigg, Muck, Rum and Canna](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/small-isles) GB 9 ways of moving, 20 sources 197 km If you know how people move in Maddiston – the stand, the rule, the fare – [tell us](https://www.mixroutes.com/report?key=blog%7Cmaddiston&title=Maddiston&sub=Field+notes&back=%2Fnotes%2Fmaddiston), and the note gets an entry. Around it ## Next door to Maddiston Maddiston is 31 km from [Edinburgh](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/edinburgh), the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture. - [Polmont](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/polmont) village in Falkirk, Scotland, UK 2.4 km - [Whitecross](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/whitecross) village in Falkirk, Scotland, UK 2.6 km - [Westquarter](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/westquarter) village in Falkirk, Scotland, UK 3.4 km - [California](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/california) village in Falkirk, Scotland, UK 3.5 km - [Wallacestone](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/wallacestone) village in Falkirk, Scotland, UK 2.4 km - [Redding](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/redding) village in Falkirk, Scotland, UK 2.8 km [The place page for Maddiston](https://www.mixroutes.com/places/maddiston) [All the notes](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes) [Every note on United Kingdom](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes#c-GB) --- This is the markdown version of https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/maddiston, for search crawlers and AI assistants. 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