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Westhill

Westhill is a commuter village on the eastern outskirts of the city of Inverness, in the Highland council area of Scotland.

The place

Westhill is a commuter village on the eastern outskirts of the city of Inverness, in the Highland council area of Scotland. It is about 3 miles (4.8 km) from the city centre, between Cradlehall and Culloden, to the south of the Moray Firth. The historic Culloden Battlefield lies 2 miles (3.2 km) away, to the east.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Westhill

2 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
    Crown Church, Inverness

    Crown Church is a parish church in Inverness in the Scottish Highlands, located at the junction of Midmills Road and Kingsmills Road near the city centre.

    3.7 km · church building in Inverness, Highland, Scotland, UK · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Eastgate Shopping Centre

    Eastgate Shopping Centre is located in Inverness, serving the largest shopping catchment area in the United Kingdom. The Eastgate shopping centre in Inverness has been taken over by UK-owned real estate company, Savills plc.

    3.8 km · shopping mall in Highland, Scotland, UK · 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 Westhill

Airports
Aberdeen (ABZ), 121 km · Edinburgh (EDI), 176 km · Glasgow (GLA), 178 km
Stations
Allanfearn railway station, 3.5 km
  • Aberdeen → Westhill
    11 km · quickest by road, 30 min · £1.5–2
  • Ingliston, Edinburgh → Westhill
    150 km · quickest by road, 2h 59m · £18–24
  • Glasgow → Westhill
    188 km · quickest by road, 3h 28m · £21–28
  • From anywhere
    The planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
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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 Westhill

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

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inThe city also has trains every couple of hours from Inverness, ferries from Orkney and Shetland, and inter-city buses.
  • Get inAll buses start from Aberdeen Union Square, next to the railway station and ferry port.

From Wikivoyage: Westhill, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.

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

    12 ways of moving, 18 sources

    127 km
  2. 02
    The Small Isles - Eigg, Muck, Rum and CannaGB

    9 ways of moving, 20 sources

    144 km
  3. 03
    Isle of CollGB

    7 ways of moving, 16 sources

    174 km
  4. 04
    Kirkwall and the Orkney IslandsGB

    9 ways of moving, 33 sources

    182 km
  5. 05
    South Uist and the southern Outer HebridesGB

    11 ways of moving, 20 sources

    192 km

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

Around it

Next door to Westhill

  • Cullodenvillage in Highland, Scotland, UK2.7 km
  • Ballochhuman settlement in Highland, Scotland, UK3.9 km
  • Smithtonvillage in Inverness, Highland, Scotland, UK1.6 km
  • Hiltonsuburb of Inverness, in Highland, Scotland, UK3.2 km
  • Allanfearnhuman settlement in Highland, Scotland, UK3.5 km
  • Crownarea situated beside the city centre of Inverness, Highland, Scotland, UK3.2 km