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Windygates

Windygates is a small village and surrounding district in central Fife, Scotland.

The place

Windygates is a small village and surrounding district in central Fife, Scotland.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Windygates

3 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
    Balgonie Castle

    Balgonie Castle is located on the south bank of the River Leven near Milton of Balgonie, 3.5 kilometres east of Glenrothes, Fife, Scotland. The castle keep dates from the 14th century, and the remaining structures were added piecemeal until the 18th century.

    3.4 km · castle in Fife, Scotland, UK · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Bayview Stadium

    Bayview Stadium is a football stadium in the Scottish town of Methil, Fife. It is home to East Fife.

    3.5 km · stadium in Fife, Scotland, UK · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Macduff's Castle

    MacDuff's Castle is a ruined castle near East Wemyss, in Fife, Scotland. The site is associated with the MacDuff Earls of Fife, the most powerful family in Fife in the Middle Ages, although nothing survives from this period.

    3.3 km · castle in Fife, 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.

Go there

Getting to Windygates

Airports
Edinburgh (EDI), 33 km · Glasgow (GLA), 93 km · Glasgow Prestwick (PIK), 122 km
Stations
Cameron Bridge railway station, 400 m · Leven railway station, 3.2 km
  • Glasgow → Windygates
    83 km · quickest by road, 1h 54m · £9–12
  • Prestwick, South Ayrshire → Windygates
    124 km · quickest by road, 2h 27m · £14–19
  • Aberdeen → Windygates
    120 km · quickest by road, 2h 45m · £13–18
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Windygates

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

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

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    147 km
  2. 02
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    150 km
  3. 03
    Isle of JuraGB

    10 ways of moving, 19 sources

    174 km
  4. 04
    The Small Isles - Eigg, Muck, Rum and CannaGB

    9 ways of moving, 20 sources

    220 km
  5. 05
    Isle of CollGB

    7 ways of moving, 16 sources

    222 km

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

Around it

Next door to Windygates

Windygates is 28 km from Edinburgh, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.