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# Castlecary

Castlecary is a small historic village in North Lanarkshire, Scotland, directly adjacent to the border with Falkirk.

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## Every way there

- Prestwick, South Ayrshire → Castlecary 68 km · quickest by road, 1h 8m · £7–9 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/prestwick-south-ayrshire-to-castlecary) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Prestwick%2C+South+Ayrshire&to=Castlecary)
- Aberdeen → Castlecary 172 km · quickest by road, 2h 34m · £19–25 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/aberdeen-to-castlecary) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Aberdeen&to=Castlecary)
- Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear → Castlecary 185 km · quickest by road, 3h 11m · £23–30 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/newcastle-upon-tyne-tyne-and-wear-to-castlecary) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Newcastle+upon+Tyne%2C+Tyne+and+Wear&to=Castlecary)

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 Castlecary, 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 Castlecary has

- Y Scheduled flights Glasgow (GLA), 32 km
- N Trains and coaches no timetable feed known for this country
- N Ferries no crossing within 25 km
- 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. Nearest place with more: Cumbernauld, 4 km.

55.979°, -3.949°

It has long been associated with infrastructure, being adjacent to a bridged river, a Roman fort and roads, a nationwide canal, a Victorian railway viaduct, and a modern motorway. Castlecary is close to the town of Cumbernauld; like Dullatur and Luggiebank, it was not originally part of the new town, but since incorporation into the North Lanarkshire Council area in 1995 it has been considered part of the town. Around 1725, the barony of Castlecary, with a population of just seventeen families, was disjoined from the parish of Falkirk, and annexed to Cumbernauld quoad sacra. Castlecary is also near Allandale which, though in the Falkirk council area, was built for Castlecary fireclay workers.

How locals move

## Getting around Castlecary the local way

- Get in The West Highland Line connects Glasgow with Oban (for ferries to Mull, Coll, Tiree and Colonsay), Fort William and Mallaig (for ferries to Skye and South Uist).
- Get in The other Hebrides ferry ports are linked by bus.
- Get in A77 runs from Stranraer (for Northern Ireland ferries) via Ayr and Kilmarnock to Glasgow.

From [Wikivoyage: Central Belt](https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Central_Belt), CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us. That article was last edited 2024-10, so a service it names may have changed or stopped.

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


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