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# Brightons

Brightons is a village in the east of the Falkirk council area of Scotland.

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## Every way there

- Glasgow → Brightons 36 km · quickest by road, 44 min · £4.5–6 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/glasgow-to-brightons) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Glasgow&to=Brightons)
- Prestwick, South Ayrshire → Brightons 78 km · quickest by road, 1h 28m · £9–12 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/prestwick-south-ayrshire-to-brightons) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Prestwick%2C+South+Ayrshire&to=Brightons)
- Aberdeen → Brightons 163 km · quickest by road, 2h 39m · £19–25 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/aberdeen-to-brightons) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Aberdeen&to=Brightons)

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 Brightons, 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 Brightons has

- Y Scheduled flights Ingliston, Edinburgh (EDI), 22 km
- Y Trains and coaches Transitous carries 3 timetable feeds for this country, 2 with real-time
- Y Ferries Hawes Pier, 21 km, Maid of the Forth; sailings estimated
- Y Driving and taxi OpenStreetMap roads; cab fare from the country band
- N Bike and scooter share no share feed known
- N Cruises no open itinerary source anywhere

Y routable now · F found, not yet implemented · N no source known.

55.981°, -3.717°

It is 2.7 miles (4.3 km) south-east of Falkirk, 2.2 miles (3.5 km) south of Grangemouth and 4.6 miles (7.4 km) west of Linlithgow. It is surrounded by the villages of Polmont, Wallacestone and Rumford. It is central within the Braes area of Falkirk which makes it “Capital of the Braes”

How locals move

## Getting around Brightons the local way

- Get in Grangemouth Docks are busy with freight but never had ferries.

From [Wikivoyage: Polmont](https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Polmont), CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us. Last edited 2026-09.

Text adapted from [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brightons), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photograph: Mike Peel (see Commons), Wikimedia Commons.


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