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Methil

Methil is a coastal town in Fife, Scotland.

Methil
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The place

Methil is a coastal town in Fife, Scotland.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Methil

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.

  1. 01
    Bayview Stadium

    Bayview Stadium is a football stadium in the Scottish town of Methil, Fife. It is home to East Fife.

    1.5 km · stadium in Fife, Scotland, UK · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Balgonie Castle

    Balgonie Castle is located on the south bank of the River Leven near Milton of Balgonie, 3.5 kilometres east of Glenrothes, Fife, Scotland. The castle keep dates from the 14th century, and the remaining structures were added piecemeal until the 18th century.

    5.5 km · castle in Fife, Scotland, UK · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Macduff's Castle

    MacDuff's Castle is a ruined castle near East Wemyss, in Fife, Scotland. The site is associated with the MacDuff Earls of Fife, the most powerful family in Fife in the Middle Ages, although nothing survives from this period.

    3.3 km · castle in Fife, Scotland, UK · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Wemyss Castle

    Wemyss Castle is situated in Wemyss on the sea cliffs between the villages of East Wemyss and West Wemyss in Fife, Scotland. Wemyss Castle is considered to be a multi-period building, and today's castle includes many elements from former periods such as the 15th-century tower and the 19th-century stables and gatepiers.

    5.8 km · castle in Fife, Scotland, UK · Wikipedia

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Getting to Methil

Airports
Edinburgh (EDI), 34 km · Glasgow (GLA), 94 km · Glasgow Prestwick (PIK), 123 km
Stations
Cameron Bridge railway station, 2 km · Leven railway station, 1.5 km
  • Glasgow → Methil
    85 km · quickest by road, 1h 56m · £9–12
  • Prestwick, South Ayrshire → Methil
    125 km · quickest by road, 2h 29m · £14–19
  • Aberdeen → Methil
    121 km · quickest by road, 2h 50m · £13–17
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Methil

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

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    148 km
  2. 02
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    152 km
  3. 03
    Isle of JuraGB

    10 ways of moving, 19 sources

    176 km
  4. 04
    The Small Isles - Eigg, Muck, Rum and CannaGB

    9 ways of moving, 20 sources

    222 km
  5. 05
    Isle of CollGB

    7 ways of moving, 16 sources

    224 km

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

Around it

Next door to Methil

Methil is 28 km from Edinburgh, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

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