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Coatbridge
Town in North Lanarkshire, Scotland

Coatbridge

Coatbridge is a town in North Lanarkshire, Scotland, about 8+1⁄2 miles east of Glasgow city centre, set in the central Lowlands.

Plan a trip to Coatbridge→From Ingliston, Edinburgh

It had a population of 42,264 in 2022. Along with neighbouring town Airdrie, Coatbridge forms the area known as the Monklands, often considered to be part of the Greater Glasgow urban area – although officially they have not been included in population figures since 2016 due to small gaps between the Monklands and Glasgow built-up areas.

Get in

Getting to Coatbridge

Coatbridge is 9 miles east of Glasgow and two miles north of M8, exit at Eurocentral interchange. Trains run every 10-15 min from Glasgow Queen Street to

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    Coatbridge Sunnyside
  2. 02
    Airdrie

    Bathgate and Livingston north to Edinburgh.

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    Coatbridge Central
See

Worth seeing

St Augustine's is the RC church, a stocky redbrick structure of 1873 on Dundyvan Rd half a mile west of Central Station.

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    Summerlee Museum of Scottish Industrial Life

    Heritage Way, Coatbridge ML5 1QD (half mile north of Central railway station),.

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    Drumpellier Country Park

    Large park around two natural lochs - these are "kettle ponds" where lumps of glaciation depressed the surface.

Do

Things to do

Time Capsule Waterpark, 100 Buchanan St, Coatbridge ML5 1DL (200 yards southwest of Central Station),. Waterpark Mon-Fri 4-8PM, Sat Sun 10AM-8PM. Activity complex with a waterpark, ice rink and gym. Ride the flumes and waterslides, catch a wave in the wave pool or work on your strokes in the 25 m pool: see website for age / height restrictions.

Eat

Where to eat

Shimla Cottage, 109 Sunnyside Rd, Coatbridge ML5 3HR (next to Sunnyside Station),. Mon-Thu 4-10PM, Fri Sat 1-10PM, Sun 2-10PM. Decent Indian, quality okay for what you're paying.

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    Crown Jewel

    Large selection of Indian dishes, good-enough reviews.

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    The Mint

    Small menu with burgers, traditional favourites (steak pie, fish & chips) and Italian dishes.

How locals move

Getting around Coatbridge the local way

  • Get inThe 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 inThe other Hebrides ferry ports are linked by bus.
  • Get inA77 runs from Stranraer (for Northern Ireland ferries) via Ayr and Kilmarnock to Glasgow.

From Wikivoyage: 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 and Wikivoyage, CC BY-SA 4.0. Photograph: Summerlee Museum of Scottish Industrial Life (see Commons), Wikimedia Commons.