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Queenzieburn

Queenzieburn is a small settlement in the historic county of Stirlingshire and the Council Area of North Lanarkshire, Scotland.

The place

Queenzieburn is a small settlement in the historic county of Stirlingshire and the Council Area of North Lanarkshire, Scotland. Its estimated population is 520. It is located near the town of Kilsyth and has a small industrial estate. The village has one school called Chapelgreen Primary. Senior pupils usually attend Kilsyth Academy.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Queenzieburn

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
    Bar Hill Roman fort

    Bar Hill Fort was a Roman fort on the Antonine Wall in Scotland. It was built around the year 142 CE. Older maps and documents sometimes spell the name as Barr Hill.

    2 km · site of Roman fort on the Antonine Wall in central Scotland · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Croy Hill Roman fort

    Croy Hill was a Roman fort, fortlet, and probable temporary camp on the Antonine Wall, near Croy, to the north east of the village in Scotland. Two communication platforms known as ‘expansions’ can be seen to the west of the fortlet.

    3.8 km · site of Roman fort on the Antonine Wall in central Scotland · 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 Queenzieburn

Airports
Glasgow (GLA), 24 km · Edinburgh (EDI), 45 km · Glasgow Prestwick (PIK), 61 km
Stations
Croy railway station, 4 km · Kilsyth railway station, 2 km · Kilsyth New railway station, 2.5 km
  • Ingliston, Edinburgh → Queenzieburn
    46 km · quickest by road, 1h 7m · £5–7
  • Prestwick, South Ayrshire → Queenzieburn
    62 km · quickest by road, 1h 31m · £7–9
  • Aberdeen → Queenzieburn
    178 km · quickest by road, 3h 18m · £20–26
  • From anywhere
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Queenzieburn

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 Queenzieburn. 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

    79 km
  2. 02
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    83 km
  3. 03
    Isle of JuraGB

    10 ways of moving, 19 sources

    108 km
  4. 04
    Isle of CollGB

    7 ways of moving, 16 sources

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

    9 ways of moving, 20 sources

    177 km

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

Around it

Next door to Queenzieburn

Queenzieburn is 16 km from Glasgow, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Kilsythtown in North Lanarkshire, Scotland, UK2.1 km
  • Croyvillage in North Lanarkshire, Scotland, UK3.5 km
  • Twecharvillage in East Dunbartonshire, Scotland, UK2.1 km
  • Auchinreochvillage in East Dunbartonshire, Scotland, UK3.5 km
  • Auchinstarryvillage in North Lanarkshire, Scotland, UK3 km