Skirling
Skirling is a parish, community council area and village in Peeblesshire in the Scottish Borders situated 2+1⁄2 miles east of Biggar in Lanarkshire.
Skirling is a parish, community council area and village in Peeblesshire in the Scottish Borders situated 2+1⁄2 miles east of Biggar in Lanarkshire. Biggar Water, a tributary the River Tweed forms the southern boundary of the parish with the parish of Broughton, Glenholm and Kilbucho. It is also bounded by that parish on the east, namely the Broughton part of it. On the north it is bounded by the parish Kirkurd in Peeblesshire. Spittal Burn forms most of its western boundary with Lanarkshire.
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Worth seeing in and around Skirling
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.
- 01Biggar Castle
Biggar Castle was a 12th-century castle in Biggar, South Lanarkshire, Scotland. It appears to have been abandoned by the 14th century.
3.8 km · castle in Biggar, South Lanarkshire, Scotland, UK · Wikipedia
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Getting to Skirling
- Airports
- Edinburgh (EDI), 35 km · Glasgow (GLA), 66 km · Glasgow Prestwick (PIK), 71 km
- Stations
- Biggar railway station, 4 km
- Glasgow → Skirling56 km · quickest by road, 1h 28m · £6–8
- Prestwick, South Ayrshire → Skirling73 km · quickest by road, 2h 6m · £8–11
- Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear → Skirling139 km · quickest by road, 3h 13m · £18–24
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
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No local-transport research exists yet for Skirling
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 Skirling. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
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If you know how people move in Skirling – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.
Next door to Skirling
Skirling is 39 km from Edinburgh, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Elsricklevillage in South Lanarkshire, Scotland, UK3.5 km