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Mollinsburn

Mollinsburn is a settlement in the North Lanarkshire area of Scotland.

The place

Mollinsburn is a settlement in the North Lanarkshire area of Scotland. It is situated on the A80 road between Condorrat to the east and Moodiesburn to the west. The population is around 100. It used to be known as Mollinburn and the stream known as Mollins Burn joins the Luggie Water east of the village.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Mollinsburn

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.

  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.

    3.2 km · UK university (2007-) · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Broadwood Stadium

    Broadwood Stadium is a multi-use community stadium and sports complex in the Westfield area of Cumbernauld, North Lanarkshire. The stadium is currently the home of Scottish League One side Hamilton Academical, as well as Cumbernauld Colts of the Scottish Lowland Football League, and Rangers W.F.C of the Scottish Women's Premier League.

    2.8 km · football stadium in North Lanarkshire, Scotland, UK · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    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.

    3.1 km · castle 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 Mollinsburn

Airports
Glasgow (GLA), 24 km · Edinburgh (EDI), 43 km · Glasgow Prestwick (PIK), 57 km
Stations
Croy railway station, 4 km · Greenfaulds railway station, 4 km
  • Ingliston, Edinburgh → Mollinsburn
    43 km · quickest by road, 58 min · £5–7
  • Prestwick, South Ayrshire → Mollinsburn
    59 km · quickest by road, 1h 20m · £6–8
  • Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear → Mollinsburn
    186 km · quickest by road, 3h 38m · £22–29
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Mollinsburn

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

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inThe West Highland Line connects Glasgow with Oban (for ferries to Mull, Coll, Tiree and Colonsay), Fort William and Mallaig (for ferries to Skye and South Uist).
  • Get inThe other Hebrides ferry ports are linked by bus.
  • Get inA77 runs from Stranraer (for Northern Ireland ferries) via Ayr and Kilmarnock to Glasgow.

From Wikivoyage: Central Belt, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2024-10.

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

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    78 km
  2. 02
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    84 km
  3. 03
    Isle of JuraGB

    10 ways of moving, 19 sources

    111 km
  4. 04
    Isle of CollGB

    7 ways of moving, 16 sources

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

    9 ways of moving, 20 sources

    183 km

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

Around it

Next door to Mollinsburn

Mollinsburn is 14 km from Glasgow, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Glenboigvillage in North Lanarkshire, Scotland, UK3.1 km
  • Chrystonvillage in North Lanarkshire, Scotland, UK3.8 km
  • Moodiesburnvillage in North Lanarkshire, Scotland, UK2.3 km
  • Condorratvillage in North Lanarkshire, Scotland, UK2.4 km
  • Annathillvillage in North Lanarkshire, Scotland, UK900 m
  • GreenfauldsArea of the town of Cumbernauld, Scotland3.8 km