Thornhill
Thornhill is a village in the Scottish council area of Stirling. It lies 14 miles north west of Stirling itself, south of Callander, east of Aberfoyle and west of Doune.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Village with 630 residents
- Description: village in Stirling, Scotland, UK
- Also known as: “Thornhill, Stirling”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Flanders Moss National Nature Reserve and Coldoch Broch.
Flanders Moss National Nature Reserve
Nature reserve
Photo: Neil Aitkenhead, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Flanders Moss is an area of raised bog lying in the Carse of Forth in west Stirlingshire, Scotland. The villages of Thornhill and Port of Menteith lie to the north with the villages of Kippen and Buchlyvie lying to the south. Flanders Moss National Nature Reserve is situated 2 miles southwest of Thornhill.
Coldoch Broch
Archaeological site
Photo: Ewen Rennie, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Coldoch Broch is an Iron Age broch located in Stirlingshire in central Scotland. Coldoch Broch is situated 2½ miles southeast of Thornhill.
Gartincaber Tower
Tower
Photo: Neil Aitkenhead, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Gartincaber Tower is situated 2 miles east of Thornhill.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Deanston and Kippen.
Deanston
Village
Photo: Eileen Henderson, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Deanston is a village in the Stirling council area, Scotland, on the south bank of the River Teith east of Doune, in south-west Perthshire. It is a part of the parish of Kilmadock. Deanston is situated 3½ miles east of Thornhill.
Kippen
Village
Photo: Richard Webb, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Kippen is a village in west Stirlingshire, Scotland. It lies between the Gargunnock Hills and the Fintry Hills and overlooks the Carse of Forth to the north. Kippen is situated 3½ miles south of Thornhill.
Doune
Photo: Aceman87, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Doune is a village in Stirlingshire, some 8 miles northwest of Stirling, with a population in 2021 of 2240. The reason to come here is to visit the castle, en route to the Trossachs.
Thornhill
- Category: locality
- Location: Stirling, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
56.17373° or 56° 10′ 25″ northLongitude
-4.15314° or 4° 9′ 11″ westPopulation
630Elevation
135 feet (41 metres)Open location code
9C8Q5RFW+FPOpenStreetMap ID
node 91243542OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
2635980Wikidata ID
Q7796432
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Swedish—“Thornhill” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Thornhill”
- Dutch: “Thornhill, Stirling”
- French: “Thornhill”
- German: “Thornhill, Stirling”
- German: “Thornhill”
- Irish: “Cnoc na Driseig”
- Russian: “Торнхилл”
- Spanish: “Thornhill”
- Swedish: “Thornhill, Stirling”
- Swedish: “Thornhill”
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Thornhill Community Hall and Thornhill Churchyard & Cemetery.
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Thornhill”. Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.0.