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# Carronshore

Carronshore is a village in the Falkirk council area of Scotland.

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## Every way there

- Glasgow → Carronshore 35 km · quickest by road, 37 min · £3.5–5 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/glasgow-to-carronshore) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Glasgow&to=Carronshore)
- Prestwick, South Ayrshire → Carronshore 79 km · quickest by road, 1h 20m · £8–11 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/prestwick-south-ayrshire-to-carronshore) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Prestwick%2C+South+Ayrshire&to=Carronshore)
- Aberdeen → Carronshore 161 km · quickest by road, 2h 34m · £17–23 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/aberdeen-to-carronshore) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Aberdeen&to=Carronshore)

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 Carronshore, 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 Carronshore has

- Y Scheduled flights Ingliston, Edinburgh (EDI), 27 km
- Y Trains and coaches Transitous carries 3 timetable feeds for this country, 2 with real-time
- Y Ferries Hawes Pier, 25 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.

56.028°, -3.777°

The village lies in the Forth Valley, 1.7 miles (2.7 km) north of the town of Falkirk and directly to the east of neighbouring village Carron.

Get in

## Getting to Carronshore

Edinburgh Airport (EDI IATA) is 19 miles east. Take the tram to Haymarket then train towards Glasgow Queen Street for Falkirk. Glasgow Airport (GLA IATA) is 34 miles west, far side of that city. Take the airport bus to Buchanan station then the train from Queen Street towards Edinburgh for Falkirk.

1. Falkirk Grahamston

See

## Worth seeing

1. Falkirk Wheel The Forth and Clyde Canal was completed in 1790 and its eastern extension the Union Canal reached Edinburgh in 1822.
2. Rough Castle Fort Earthwork remains of a Roman fort on the Antonine Wall, built 142 AD and garrisoned by the Nervii, a 500-strong cohort of Belgian recruits.

Do

## Things to do

What's on? For local events listen to Central FM on 103.1 FM or read Falkirk Herald, published weekly. Football:

1. Falkirk FC 4 Stadium Way, Falkirk FK2 9EE (a mile east of centre near jcn of M9 and A904),.
2. Falkirk GC
3. Bonnybridge GC
4. Grangemouth GC Airth Highland Games are held on the fourth Saturday in July at The Wilderness in Airth, which is a lot closer to main street than that address suggests.

Eat

## Where to eat

1. Benny T's Mary St, Laurieston FK2 9PS (a mile east of Falkirk centre),.
2. Sanam Tandoori 5 Callendar Road FK1 1XS (foot of High Street),.
3. Erawan Thai Tue-Thu 5-9PM, Fri Sat noon-10PM, Sun 5-8PM.
4. Chianti Restaurant East Beancross Farm FK2 0XS (Jcn 5 of M9 opposite Premier Inn),.

How locals move

## Getting around Carronshore 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/Carronshore) and [Wikivoyage](https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Falkirk), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photograph: Tom Paterson (see Commons), Wikimedia Commons.


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