Human settlement in Scotland

Limekilns

Limekilns is a historic coastal village in Fife, Scotland.

Every way there

Glasgow → Limekilns
52 km · quickest by road, 1h 12m · £6–7
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Prestwick, South Ayrshire → Limekilns
93 km · quickest by road, 2h 9m · £10–14
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Aberdeen → Limekilns
150 km · quickest by road, 2h 48m · £17–22
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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 Limekilns, 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 Limekilns has

YScheduled flightsIngliston, Edinburgh (EDI), 11 km
FTrains and coachesTransitous carries 3 timetable feeds for this country, 2 with real-time; a stop for a place this small is unverified
YFerriesHawes Pier, 7 km, Maid of the Forth; sailings estimated
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: Dunfermline, 4 km.

56.033°, -3.479°

It lies on the shore of the Firth of Forth, around 3 miles (5 km) south of Dunfermline and 13 miles (21km) northwest of Edinburgh.

How locals move

Getting around Limekilns the local way

Get aroundTaxi operators include NQ Ferry +44 1383 669755, Mac's Taxis +44 1383 411111, Graham's +44 1383 413505 and Forth Taxis +44 1383 611611.

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

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