Nitshill
Nitshill is a district on the south side of Glasgow.
Nitshill is a district on the south side of Glasgow. It is bordered by South Nitshill to the south, Darnley to the east, Crookston and Roughmussel to the north-west, Hurlet to the west and Househillwood and Priesthill to the north, with the Pollok district and the Silverburn Centre beyond. An area of open ground to the south-west of Nitshill forms the boundary between Glasgow and the town of Barrhead in East Renfrewshire.
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Worth seeing in and around Nitshill
10 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.
- 01Burrell Collection
The Burrell Collection is a museum in Glasgow, Scotland, managed by Glasgow Museums. It houses the art collection of Sir William Burrell and Constance, Lady Burrell.
3.9 km · art museum in Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom · Wikipedia - 02Crookston Castle
Crookston Castle is a ruined medieval castle in the Pollok area of Glasgow, Scotland. It is located some five miles south-west of the city centre, on a hill overlooking the Levern Water, just before its confluence with the White Cart Water.
2.3 km · ringwork castle in Glasgow City, Scotland, UK · Wikipedia - 03Pollok House
Pollok House, formerly the family seat of the Stirling-Maxwell family, is located at Pollok Country Park in Glasgow, Scotland.
3.1 km · category A listed building in Glasgow, Scotland, UK · Wikipedia - 04Pollok Country Park
Pollok Country Park is a 146-hectare country park located between Shawlands, Crossmyloof, and Pollok in Glasgow, Scotland. In 2007, Pollok Country Park was named Britain's Best Park, and in 2008 it was named the Best Park in Europe, beating competition from parks in Italy, France, Germany, Poland and Sweden.
3.9 km · park in Glasgow, Scotland, UK · Wikipedia - 05Diocese of Glasgow and Galloway
The Diocese of Glasgow and Galloway is one of the seven dioceses of the Scottish Episcopal Church. It covers Dumfries and Galloway, Ayrshire, Lanarkshire, Dunbartonshire, Renfrewshire and west Stirlingshire.
2.9 km · one of seven dioceses of the Scottish Episcopal Church · Wikipedia - 06Paisley and Johnstone Canal
The Glasgow, Paisley and Ardrossan Canal, later known as the Glasgow, Paisley and Johnstone Canal, was a canal in the west of Scotland, running between Glasgow, Paisley and Johnstone which later became a railway. Despite the name, the canal was never completed down to Ardrossan, the termini being Port Eglinton in Glasgow and Thorn Brae in Johnstone.
3.9 km · canal in Glasgow City, Scotland, UK · Wikipedia - 07Capelrig House
Capelrig House is an 18th-century house in Newton Mearns, East Renfrewshire, Scotland, upon whose lands is situated Eastwood High School. The house is protected as a Category A listed building.
3.9 km · category A listed building in East Renfrewshire, Scotland, UK · Wikipedia - 08Rouken Glen
Rouken Glen Park is a public park in East Renfrewshire, to the south-west of Glasgow, Scotland.
3.6 km · park in Giffnock, East Renfrewshire, Scotland, UK · Wikipedia - 09Blackhall Manor
Blackhall Manor is a tower house in Paisley in Renfrewshire, in the western central Lowlands of Scotland. It dates to the sixteenth century, although parts may be older, and formerly belonged to the Stewart or Shaw-Stewart family.
3.9 km · tower house in Scotland · Wikipedia - 10Darnley Lime Works Tramway and Mineral Railway
The Darnley Lime Works Tramway and Mineral Railway consisted of a narrow gauge field railway and probably a standard gauge works railway at today's Dams to Darnley Country Park in East Renfrewshire, 9.7 km southwest of Glasgow. They were successively operated at least from 1898 to 1959.
1.3 km · narrow gauge field railway and probably a standard gauge works railway at today's Dams to Darnley Country Park in Renfrewshire, 9.7 km southwest of Glasgow · Wikipedia
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Getting to Nitshill
- Airports
- Glasgow (GLA), 8 km · Glasgow Prestwick (PIK), 37 km · Edinburgh (EDI), 64 km
- Stations
- Pollokshaws West railway station, 4 km · Priesthill & Darnley railway station, 1.3 km · Mosspark railway station, 3 km · Thornliebank railway station, 3.3 km · Patterton railway station, 3.2 km
- Ingliston, Edinburgh → Nitshill64 km · quickest by road, 1h 24m · £7–9
- Belfast → Nitshill168 km · quickest by road, 14h 12m · £70–95
- Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear → Nitshill197 km · quickest by road, 3h 51m · £23–30
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
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 Nitshill
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 Nitshill. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- 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.
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Next door to Nitshill
Nitshill is 9 km from Glasgow, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Barrheadtown in East Renfrewshire, Scotland, UK2.4 km
- Ralstonhuman settlement in Paisley, Renfrewshire, Scotland, UK3.6 km
- Cardonaldsuburb of Glasgow, Scotland, UK3.9 km
- Crookstonsuburb of Glasgow, Scotland, UK3.1 km
- Ardendistrict of Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom2.1 km
- Kennisheaddistrict in Glasgow City, Scotland, UK2.5 km