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Plean

Plean is a village, in the Stirling council area of central Scotland, located on the main A9 road from Falkirk.

Plean
Plean · Wolfgang Moroder
The place

Plean is a village, in the Stirling council area of central Scotland, located on the main A9 road from Falkirk. At the 2001 census, Plean had a population of 1,740. Plean has some historic buildings, some council houses and an estate.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Getting to Plean

Airports
Edinburgh (EDI), 33 km · Glasgow (GLA), 41 km · Glasgow Prestwick (PIK), 76 km
  • Glasgow → Plean
    33 km · quickest by road, 48 min · £4–5
  • Prestwick, South Ayrshire → Plean
    78 km · quickest by road, 1h 46m · £9–11
  • Aberdeen → Plean
    162 km · quickest by road, 2h 57m · £18–24
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Plean

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 Plean. 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

    96 km
  2. 02
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    98 km
  3. 03
    Isle of JuraGB

    10 ways of moving, 19 sources

    122 km
  4. 04
    Isle of CollGB

    7 ways of moving, 16 sources

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

    9 ways of moving, 20 sources

    182 km

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Next door to Plean

Plean is 32 km from Glasgow, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.