Parkhead
Parkhead is a district in the East End of Glasgow.
Parkhead is a district in the East End of Glasgow. Its name comes from a small weaving hamlet at the meeting place of the Great Eastern Road and Westmuir Street. Glasgow's Eastern Necropolis cemetery was laid out in the area in 1847 beside the Gallowgate. It borders with Shettleston and Tollcross to the immediate east, and Camlachie and Dennistoun to the west.
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Getting to Parkhead
- Airports
- Glasgow (GLA), 15 km · Glasgow Prestwick (PIK), 45 km · Edinburgh (EDI), 53 km
- Prestwick, South Ayrshire → Parkhead47 km · quickest by road, 1h 10m · £5–7
- Ingliston, Edinburgh → Parkhead6 km · quickest by road, 17 min · £0.5–1
- Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear → Parkhead31 km · quickest by road, 1h 1m · £3.5–5
- 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 Parkhead
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 Parkhead. 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.
From Wikivoyage: Glasgow, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.
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Next door to Parkhead
Parkhead is 4 km from Glasgow, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.