Human settlement in Scotland

Airth

Airth is a Royal Burgh, village, former trading port and civil parish in Falkirk, Scotland.

Every way there

Glasgow → Airth
38 km · quickest by road, 49 min · £4–5
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Prestwick, South Ayrshire → Airth
82 km · quickest by road, 1h 46m · £9–11
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Aberdeen → Airth
157 km · quickest by road, 3h 1m · £18–23
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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.

The field note

What is in and around Airth, ranked by how widely it is written about, how you reach it, and the nearest places where we have researched how people move.

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What Airth has

YScheduled flightsIngliston, Edinburgh (EDI), 28 km
FTrains and coachesTransitous carries 3 timetable feeds for this country, 2 with real-time; a stop for a place this small is unverified
NFerriesno crossing within 25 km
YDriving and taxiOpenStreetMap roads; cab fare from the country band
NBike and scooter shareno share feed known
NCruisesno open itinerary source anywhere

Y routable now · F found, not yet implemented · N no source known. Nearest place with more: Cumbernauld, 19 km.

56.067°, -3.776°

It is 6 miles north of Falkirk town and sits on the banks of the River Forth. Airth lies on the A905 road between Grangemouth and Stirling and is overlooked by Airth Castle; the village retains two market crosses and a small number of historic houses. At the time of the 2001 census the village had a population of 1,273 residents but this has been revised to 1,660 according to a 2008 estimate.

How locals move

Getting around Airth the local way

Get inIt's within bicycle range of Edinburgh but cyclists must cross the Forth via the old road bridge A9000, then use B981 Ferry Toll Road onto A985 west.

From Wikivoyage: Culross, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us. Last edited 2026-09.

Text adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Photograph: HappyScot (see Commons), Wikimedia Commons.