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# Shieldhill

Shieldhill is a village within the Falkirk council area in Central Scotland.

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## Every way there

- Glasgow → Shieldhill 33 km · quickest by road, 42 min · £4–5 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/glasgow-to-shieldhill) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Glasgow&to=Shieldhill)
- Prestwick, South Ayrshire → Shieldhill 75 km · quickest by road, 1h 25m · £8–11 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/prestwick-south-ayrshire-to-shieldhill) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Prestwick%2C+South+Ayrshire&to=Shieldhill)
- Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear → Shieldhill 175 km · quickest by road, 3h 9m · £21–28 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/newcastle-upon-tyne-tyne-and-wear-to-shieldhill) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Newcastle+upon+Tyne%2C+Tyne+and+Wear&to=Shieldhill)

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 Shieldhill, 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 Shieldhill has

- Y Scheduled flights Ingliston, Edinburgh (EDI), 25 km
- Y Trains and coaches Transitous carries 3 timetable feeds for this country, 2 with real-time
- Y Ferries Hawes Pier, 24 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.

55.972°, -3.765°

The village is two miles southeast of Falkirk, 2+1⁄2 miles southwest of Polmont and 1⁄2 mile north of California.

How locals move

## Getting around Shieldhill 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/Shieldhill%2C_Falkirk), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photograph: Unknown authorUnknown author (see Commons), Wikimedia Commons.


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