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St. Ninians is a long-standing settlement which is now a district of the city of Stirling in central Scotland. It is located approximately one mile south of the city centre. It was originally known as Eccles, and may have been a Christian site from an unusually early date. Later called 'St. Ringan's'. This church was the administrative centre for churches across the strath of the River Forth.
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Worth seeing in and around St Ninians
10 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.
- 01Stirling Castle
Stirling Castle, located in Stirling, is one of the largest and most historically and architecturally important castles in Scotland. The castle sits atop an intrusive crag, which forms part of the Stirling Sill geological formation.
2.4 km · castle in Stirling, Scotland, UK · Wikipedia - 02Cambuskenneth Abbey
The Abbey of St Mary of Cambuskenneth, commonly known as Cambuskenneth Abbey, was a provostry of Canons Regular located on an area of land enclosed by a meander of the River Forth near Stirling in Scotland. The abbey today is largely reduced to its foundations, however its bell tower remains.
2.6 km · abbey in Stirling, Scotland, UK · Wikipedia - 03Forthbank Stadium
Forthbank Stadium is a football stadium in Stirling, Scotland. Opened in 1993, it has been the home ground of Scottish Professional Football League club Stirling Albion since then.
2.4 km · football stadium in Stirling, Scotland, UK · Wikipedia - 04Church of the Holy Rude, Stirling
The Church of the Holy Rude is the medieval parish church of Stirling, Scotland. It is named after the Holy Rood, a relic of the True Cross on which Jesus was crucified.
2 km · church in Stirling, Scotland, UK · Wikipedia - 05Old Bridge
Stirling Old Bridge is a stone bridge which crosses the River Forth. For over 300 years it provided the lowest crossing point of the Forth and so had strategic importance.
2.9 km · bridge in Stirling, Scotland · Wikipedia - 06Argyll's Lodging
Argyll's Lodging is a 17th-century town-house in the Renaissance style, situated below Stirling Castle in Stirling, Scotland. It was a residence of William Alexander, 1st Earl of Stirling and later the Earls of Argyll.
2.1 km · 17th-century town-house in Scotland · Wikipedia - 07Statue of Henry Campbell-Bannerman
A statue of Henry Campbell-Bannerman by Paul Raphael Montford stands in Stirling, Scotland. Erected in 1913, it depicts Henry Campbell-Bannerman, the former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and Liberal Member of Parliament for Stirling Burghs.
1.7 km · statue in Stirling, Scotland, UK · Wikipedia - 08Gillies Hill
Gillies Hill is located west of Stirling and the M9, south of Cambusbarron, and north of the Bannock Burn in Central Scotland. Gillies Hill covers a 140 hectares crag and tail which rises from a height of 79 metres at the Bannock Burn Bridge near Sauchie Craig to an elevation of 162 m at a point which overlooks the former quarrying operation to the west and Stirling Castle to the east.
2.4 km · hill in Stirling, Scotland, UK · Wikipedia - 09Mar's Wark
Mar's Wark is a ruined building in Stirling built 1570–1572 by John Erskine, Regent of Scotland and Earl of Mar, and now in the care of Historic Scotland. Mar intended the building for the principal residence of the Erskine family in Stirling, whose chief had become hereditary keeper of the nearby royal Stirling Castle where the princes of Scotland were schooled.
2 km · ruined building in Stirling built 1570–1572 · Wikipedia - 10Stirling Smith Museum and Art Gallery
Stirling Smith Art Gallery and Museum, formerly the Smith Institute, is an art and local history museum in Stirling, Scotland. The museum was founded in 1874 at the bequest of artist Thomas Stuart Smith.
1.8 km · museum in Stirling, Scotland, United Kingdom · Wikipedia
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Getting to St Ninians
- Airports
- Edinburgh (EDI), 39 km · Glasgow (GLA), 40 km · Glasgow Prestwick (PIK), 78 km
- Stations
- Stirling railway station, 1.9 km · Forthside Bridge, 1.8 km
- Glasgow → St Ninians33 km · quickest by road, 49 min · £3.5–5
- Prestwick, South Ayrshire → St Ninians79 km · quickest by road, 1h 46m · £8–11
- Aberdeen → St Ninians68 km · quickest by road, 1h 38m · £8–10
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No local-transport research exists yet for St Ninians
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 St Ninians. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inTrains from Glasgow also run west of Loch Lomond to Crianlarich, where they branch for Oban (for ferries to the Hebrides) or Fort William (for Ben Nevis).
- Go nextHighlands northwest bring you to Glencoe, or Oban for ferries to the Hebrides.
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Next door to St Ninians
St Ninians is 33 km from Glasgow, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Stirlingcity in Scotland, UK1.5 km
- Bannockburntown in Stirling, Scotland, UK2.3 km
- Cambuskennethvillage in Stirling, Scotland, UK2.6 km
- Fallinvillage in Stirling, Scotland, UK3.9 km
- Cambusbarronvillage in Stirling, Scotland, UK1.9 km
- Broomridgevillage in Stirling, Scotland, UK1.5 km