Waterfoot
Worth seeing in and around Waterfoot
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.
- 01National 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.
4 km · national museum in South Lanarkshire, Scotland, UK · Wikipedia - 02Mearns 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.
1.6 km · castle in East Renfrewshire, Scotland, UK · Wikipedia - 03Capelrig House
Capelrig House is an 18th-century house in Newton Mearns, East Renfrewshire, Scotland, upon whose lands is situated Eastwood High School. The house is protected as a Category A listed building.
3.3 km · category A listed building in East Renfrewshire, Scotland, UK · Wikipedia - 04Rouken Glen
Rouken Glen Park is a public park in East Renfrewshire, to the south-west of Glasgow, Scotland.
3.6 km · park in Giffnock, East Renfrewshire, Scotland, UK · Wikipedia - 05Giffnock Synagogue
The Giffnock Newton Mearns Synagogue, commonly known as Giffnock Shul, is an Orthodox Jewish congregation and synagogue, located at 222 Fenwick Road in Giffnock, East Renfrewshire, to the south of Glasgow, Scotland, in the United Kingdom. The synagogue is the largest in Scotland and also features a religious day school for both children and teenagers.
3.9 km · synagogue in East Renfrewshire, Scotland, UK · Wikipedia
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Getting to Waterfoot
- Airports
- Glasgow (GLA), 15 km · Glasgow Prestwick (PIK), 35 km · Edinburgh (EDI), 60 km
- Stations
- Thorntonhall railway station, 2.1 km · Patterton railway station, 4 km · Whitecraigs railway station, 2.9 km · Williamwood railway station, 2.8 km · Hairmyres railway station, 3.5 km
- Ingliston, Edinburgh → Waterfoot61 km · quickest by road, 1h 21m · £6–8
- Belfast → Waterfoot167 km · quickest by road, 14h 7m · £70–95
- Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear → Waterfoot190 km · quickest by road, 3h 45m · £22–29
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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.
No local-transport research exists yet for Waterfoot
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 Waterfoot. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Go nextAyr has the birthplace of Robert Burns in Alloway, and Ardrossan has ferries to the charming Isle of Arran.
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Next door to Waterfoot
Waterfoot is 11 km from Glasgow, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Giffnocktown in East Renfrewshire, Scotland, UK3.2 km
- Newton Mearnstown in East Renfrewshire, Scotland, UK3.2 km
- Eagleshamvillage in East Renfrewshire, Scotland, UK3.4 km
- Clarkstontown in East Renfrewshire, Scotland, UK1.3 km
- Busbyhuman settlement in East Renfrewshire, Scotland, UK1.8 km
- Carmunnockconservation village at the south-east border of Glasgow3.7 km