Shotts
Shotts is a town in North Lanarkshire, Scotland.
Shotts is a town in North Lanarkshire, Scotland. It is located 16 miles from Glasgow and has a population of about 8,840. A local story has Shotts being named after the legendary giant highwayman Bertram de Shotts, though toponymists give the Anglo-Saxon scēots as the real source of the name.
Shotts is the home of the world famous Shotts and Dykehead Caledonia Pipe Band, 16-time winners of World Pipe Band Championships.
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Worth seeing in and around Shotts
One place 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.
- 01Kirk of Shotts, Hirst Road, Salsburgh
Shottskirk, more commonly known as Kirk O'Shotts Parish Church, or affectionately "The M8 Church", is a local parish church located in Salsburgh, North Lanarkshire, Scotland, and serves the village of Salsburgh, the town of Shotts and the hamlets in between. The last dedicated minister for this church was Rev.
3.8 km · church building and cemetery east of Salsburgh, North Lanarkshire, Scotland, UK · Wikipedia
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Getting to Shotts
- Airports
- Edinburgh (EDI), 30 km · Glasgow (GLA), 40 km · Glasgow Prestwick (PIK), 60 km
- Stations
- Shotts railway station, 600 m · Hartwood railway station, 2.5 km · Headless Cross railway station, 3.9 km
- Prestwick, South Ayrshire → Shotts62 km · quickest by road, 1h 37m · £8–10
- Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear → Shotts167 km · quickest by road, 3h 39m · £21–28
- Aberdeen → Shotts180 km · quickest by road, 3h 23m · £21–27
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
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No local-transport research exists yet for Shotts
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 Shotts. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Go nextAdmirers of Burns should head for Ayr, while Ardrossan has ferries for the Isle of Arran.
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Next door to Shotts
Shotts is 29 km from Glasgow, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.