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Twechar

Twechar is a small former mining village historically in Dunbartonshire and administered by the council area of East Dunbartonshire, Scotland close to the boundary with North Lanarkshire.

Twechar
Twechar · Rosser1954
The place

Twechar is a small former mining village historically in Dunbartonshire and administered by the council area of East Dunbartonshire, Scotland close to the boundary with North Lanarkshire. It lies between the larger towns of Cumbernauld, Kilsyth and Kirkintilloch. The Forth and Clyde Canal runs close to the village to the north, and closely follows the line of the Antonine Wall. There are visible remains of the wall on Bar Hill and the Roman Fort is a local tourist attraction.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Twechar

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
    University of the West of Scotland

    The University of the West of Scotland, formerly the University of Paisley, is a public university with four campuses in south-western Scotland, in the towns of Paisley, Blantyre, Dumfries and Ayr, as well as a campus in London, England. The present institution dates from August 2007, following the merger of the University of Paisley with Bell College, Hamilton.

    700 m · UK university (2007-) · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Broadwood Stadium

    Broadwood Stadium is a multi-use community stadium and sports complex in the Westfield area of Cumbernauld, North Lanarkshire. The stadium is currently the home of Scottish League One side Hamilton Academical, as well as Cumbernauld Colts of the Scottish Lowland Football League, and Rangers W.F.C of the Scottish Women's Premier League.

    3.1 km · football stadium in North Lanarkshire, Scotland, UK · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Auld Aisle Cemetery

    The Auld Aisle Cemetery is located in Kirkintilloch, East Dunbartonshire, Scotland. The cemetery is protected as a category A listed building, and includes graves dating back to the eighteenth century.

    4 km · cemetery in East Dunbartonshire, Scotland, UK · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Bar Hill Roman fort

    Bar Hill Fort was a Roman fort on the Antonine Wall in Scotland. It was built around the year 142 CE. Older maps and documents sometimes spell the name as Barr Hill.

    1.2 km · site of Roman fort on the Antonine Wall in central Scotland · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Croy Hill Roman fort

    Croy Hill was a Roman fort, fortlet, and probable temporary camp on the Antonine Wall, near Croy, to the north east of the village in Scotland. Two communication platforms known as ‘expansions’ can be seen to the west of the fortlet.

    3.6 km · site of Roman fort on the Antonine Wall in central Scotland · 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.

Go there

Getting to Twechar

Airports
Glasgow (GLA), 23 km · Edinburgh (EDI), 44 km · Glasgow Prestwick (PIK), 59 km
Stations
Croy railway station, 3.1 km · Kilsyth railway station, 3.4 km · Kilsyth New railway station, 3.7 km
  • Ingliston, Edinburgh → Twechar
    45 km · quickest by road, 1h 3m · £5–7
  • Prestwick, South Ayrshire → Twechar
    61 km · quickest by road, 1h 26m · £6–9
  • Aberdeen → Twechar
    180 km · quickest by road, 3h 14m · £20–26
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Twechar

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

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inThe West Highland Line connects Glasgow with Oban (for ferries to Mull, Coll, Tiree and Colonsay), Fort William and Mallaig (for ferries to Skye and South Uist).
  • Get inThe other Hebrides ferry ports are linked by bus.
  • Get inA77 runs from Stranraer (for Northern Ireland ferries) via Ayr and Kilmarnock to Glasgow.

From Wikivoyage: Central Belt, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2024-10.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    78 km
  2. 02
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    83 km
  3. 03
    Isle of JuraGB

    10 ways of moving, 19 sources

    109 km
  4. 04
    Isle of CollGB

    7 ways of moving, 16 sources

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

    9 ways of moving, 20 sources

    179 km

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

Around it

Next door to Twechar

Twechar is 14 km from Glasgow, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

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