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What is there

Worth seeing in and around Stirling

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.

  1. 01
    Stirling Castle

    Castle in Stirling, Scotland, UK

    900 m · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    University of Stirling

    University in Scotland

    3.1 km · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Wallace Monument

    Tower standing on the summit of Abbey Craig, near Stirling in Scotland

    2.5 km · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Cambuskenneth Abbey

    Abbey in Stirling, Scotland, UK

    1.3 km · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Forthbank Stadium

    Football stadium in Stirling, Scotland, UK

    1.6 km · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Church of the Holy Rude, Stirling

    Church in Stirling, Scotland, UK

    500 m · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Abbey Craig

    Hill to the north of Stirling, Scotland, UK

    2.4 km · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    Old Bridge

    Bridge in Stirling, Scotland

    1.1 km · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    Airthrey Castle

    Country house, now university building, in Bridge of Allan, Stirling, Scotland, UK

    3.6 km · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    Argyll's Lodging

    17th-century town-house in Scotland

    500 m · 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 Stirling

Airports
Edinburgh (EDI), 40 km · Glasgow (GLA), 41 km · Glasgow Prestwick (PIK), 79 km
Stations
Stirling railway station, 100 m · Forthside Bridge, 200 m
  • Glasgow → Stirling
    35 km · quickest by road, 55 min · £4–5
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  • Prestwick, South Ayrshire → Stirling
    81 km · quickest by road, 1h 53m · £9–12
    GuideToday
  • Aberdeen → Stirling
    160 km · quickest by road, 2h 53m · £17–23
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Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.

Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Stirling

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 Stirling. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • 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.

From Wikivoyage: Stirlingshire and Clackmannanshire, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2025-06.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    95 km
  2. 02
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    96 km
  3. 03
    Isle of JuraGB

    10 ways of moving, 19 sources

    119 km
  4. 04
    Isle of CollGB

    7 ways of moving, 16 sources

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

    9 ways of moving, 20 sources

    175 km

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

Around it

Next door to Stirling

Stirling is 35 km from Glasgow, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

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