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Mugdock

Mugdock is a hamlet in Stirlingshire, Scotland.

Mugdock
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The place

Mugdock is a hamlet in Stirlingshire, Scotland. It lies to the south of the village of Strathblane, and was in the civil parish.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Mugdock

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. 01
    Mugdock Castle

    Mugdock Castle was the stronghold of the Clan Graham from the middle of the 13th century. Its ruins are located in Mugdock Country Park, just west of the village of Mugdock in the parish of Strathblane.

    900 m · castle with associated chapel and house, all ruins, in Stirling, Scotland, UK · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Bardowie Castle

    Bardowie Castle is located 2 kilometres east of Milngavie, in East Dunbartonshire, Scotland. The A-Listed building overlooks Bardowie Loch.

    4 km · castle in East Dunbartonshire, Scotland, UK · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Murray Park

    The Rangers Training Centre is the training ground of Rangers F.C. located in Milngavie, East Dunbartonshire, Scotland. It was opened in 2001 and originally named Murray Park after the then Rangers owner David Murray.

    3.7 km · stadium in East Dunbartonshire, Scotland, UK · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Craigend Castle

    Craigend Castle is a ruined country house, located to the north of Milngavie, in Stirlingshire, central Scotland.

    1.5 km · mansion, now ruinous, in Stirling, Scotland, UK · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    St Paul’s Church

    St Paul's Church, often styled as St Paul's Milngavie, is a parish church of the Presbyterian Church of Scotland in the Scottish town of Milngavie in East Dunbartonshire, near Glasgow. The church holds morning services every Sunday, in addition to a monthly evening service, which are livestreamed online.

    2.7 km · 1905/6 church building in Milngavie, East Dunbartonshire, 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.

Go there

Getting to Mugdock

Airports
Glasgow (GLA), 13 km · Glasgow Prestwick (PIK), 54 km · Edinburgh (EDI), 58 km
Stations
Milngavie railway station, 2.8 km
  • Prestwick, South Ayrshire → Mugdock
    55 km · quickest by road, 1h 22m · £6–8
  • Ingliston, Edinburgh → Mugdock
    59 km · quickest by road, 1h 25m · £7–9
  • Aberdeen → Mugdock
    189 km · quickest by road, 3h 34m · £22–29
  • From anywhere
    The planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Mugdock

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 Mugdock. 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

    67 km
  2. 02
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    69 km
  3. 03
    Isle of JuraGB

    10 ways of moving, 19 sources

    95 km
  4. 04
    Isle of CollGB

    7 ways of moving, 16 sources

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

    9 ways of moving, 20 sources

    167 km

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Around it

Next door to Mugdock

Mugdock is 12 km from Glasgow, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

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