Thorntonhall

Worth seeing in and around Thorntonhall

5 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
   Mearns Castle

   Mearns Castle is a 15th-century tower house in Newton Mearns, East Renfrewshire, south of Glasgow, Scotland. It is a Category A listed building.

   3.9 km · castle in East Renfrewshire, Scotland, UK · Wikipedia
2. 02
   National Museum of Rural Life

   The National Museum of Rural Life, previously known as the Museum of Scottish Country Life, is based at Wester Kittochside farm, lying between East Kilbride in South Lanarkshire and Carmunnock in Glasgow. It is run by National Museums Scotland.

   1.8 km · national museum in South Lanarkshire, Scotland, UK · Wikipedia
3. 03
   Polnoon Castle

   Polnoon Castle was a 14th-century fortification located on a motte beside the Polnoon Water in Millhall, in the Parish of Eaglesham, East Renfrewshire, Scotland.

   3.9 km · castle in East Renfrewshire, Scotland, UK · Wikipedia
4. 04
   Mains Castle

   Mains Castle is a rectangular tower house dating from the fifteenth century, situated near East Kilbride, South Lanarkshire, Scotland. It is a Category A listed building.

   3.8 km · castle in East Kilbride, South Lanarkshire, Scotland · Wikipedia
5. 05
   Linn Park

   Linn Park is an 82-hectare park in Glasgow, Scotland, surrounded by the suburbs of Cathcart, Muirend, Simshill, and Castlemilk, also bordering Netherlee in East Renfrewshire. It is Glasgow's third largest park, after Pollok Country Park and Dams to Darnley Country Park, although Dams to Darnley is partly in East Renfrewshire.

   4 km · park in Glasgow, Scotland, UK · Wikipedia

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Getting to Thorntonhall

Airports

Glasgow (GLA), 16 km · Glasgow Prestwick (PIK), 36 km · Edinburgh (EDI), 58 km

Stations

Thorntonhall railway station, 200 m · Williamwood railway station, 3.8 km · Hairmyres railway station, 1.4 km · Busby railway station, 1.5 km · Clarkston railway station, 2.8 km

• Ingliston, Edinburgh → Thorntonhall

  59 km · quickest by road, 1h 18m · £6–8
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• Belfast → Thorntonhall

  168 km · quickest by road, 14h 4m · £70–95
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• Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear → Thorntonhall

  188 km · quickest by road, 3h 42m · £22–29
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No local-transport research exists yet for Thorntonhall

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

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