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Wilkieston

Wilkieston is a small village in West Lothian, Scotland.

The place

Wilkieston is a small village in West Lothian, Scotland. It is located on the A71 road, 0.93 miles (1.5 km) north of Kirknewton, 1.2 miles (2 km) south-west of Ratho and 6.2 miles (10 km) east of Livingston.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Getting to Wilkieston

Airports
Edinburgh (EDI), 6 km · Glasgow (GLA), 64 km · Glasgow Prestwick (PIK), 86 km
  • Glasgow → Wilkieston
    53 km · quickest by road, 1h 9m · £6–7
  • Prestwick, South Ayrshire → Wilkieston
    88 km · quickest by road, 2h 4m · £10–13
  • Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear → Wilkieston
    153 km · quickest by road, 3h 16m · £19–25
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Wilkieston

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

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inFrom Edinburgh, follow A90 west then branch off onto B924, the old road to the ferry.

From Wikivoyage: South Queensferry, 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 ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    114 km
  2. 02
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    125 km
  3. 03
    Isle of JuraGB

    10 ways of moving, 19 sources

    151 km
  4. 04
    Isle of CollGB

    7 ways of moving, 16 sources

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

    9 ways of moving, 20 sources

    216 km

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Next door to Wilkieston

Wilkieston is 14 km from Edinburgh, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.