Village in West Lothian, Scotland

Wilkieston

Wilkieston is a small village in West Lothian, Scotland.

Every way there

Glasgow → Wilkieston
53 km · quickest by road, 1h 9m · £6–7
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Prestwick, South Ayrshire → Wilkieston
88 km · quickest by road, 2h 4m · £10–13
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Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear → Wilkieston
153 km · quickest by road, 3h 16m · £19–25
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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 Wilkieston, 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 Wilkieston has

YScheduled flightsIngliston, Edinburgh (EDI), 6 km
NTrains and coachesno timetable feed known for this country
YFerriesHawes Pier, 10 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: Livingston, 7 km.

55.901°, -3.407°

It is located on the A71 road, 0.93 miles (1.5 km) north of Kirknewton, 1.2 miles (2 km) south-west of Ratho and 6.2 miles (10 km) east of Livingston.

How locals move

Getting around Wilkieston the local way

Get inFrom Edinburgh, follow A90 west then branch off onto B924, the old road to the ferry.

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

Text adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.