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East Renfrewshire

Busby

Busby is a village in , Scotland. Busby is in the urban area, but is administratively separate from . It lies on the White Cart Water six miles south of Glasgow city centre and 3⁄4 mile northwest of the outskirts of .
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Photo: Stephen Sweeney, CC BY-SA 2.0.
  • Type: Village with 3,220 residents
  • Description: human settlement in East Renfrewshire, Scotland, UK
  • Also known as: “Busby, East Renfrewshire”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Busby railway station and Clarkston railway station.

Railway station
Photo: Voldesade, CC BY 4.0.
is a railway station serving the village of Busby, East Renfrewshire. The station is managed by ScotRail and is on the East Kilbride–Glasgow Central line.

Railway station
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is a railway station serving the town of Clarkston, . The station is managed by ScotRail and is on the East Kilbride–Glasgow Central line. It was opened in 1866 by the Busby Railway.

School
Photo: Gordon McKinlay, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is a non-denominational state secondary school in , Scotland. As of 2024, the school contained 1678 pupils out of a capacity of 1710, making it one of the biggest state schools in Scotland.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Clarkston and Stamperland.

Town
Photo: John McLeish, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is a suburban town in , in the Central Lowlands of . A dormitory town with a population of around 10,000, is on the southern fringe of the conurbation and directly adjoins the neighbouring suburban villages of Busby and , as well as the towns of and .

Suburb
Photo: Stephen Sweeney, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is a suburban neighbourhood in , , . Part of the conurbation, it is situated on the west bank of the White Cart Water about 4.5 miles south of city centre, and just outside the city boundary.

Village
Photo: Stephen Sweeney, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is an affluent village in , Scotland, lying around 6 miles to the south of , and around 2+1⁄2 miles west of .

Busby

Latitude
55.78157° or 55° 46′ 54″ north
Longitude
-4.26581° or 4° 15′ 57″ west
Population
3,220
Elevation
318 feet (97 metres)
Open location code
9C7QQPJM+JM
Open­Street­Map ID
node 3892540628
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­village
Geo­Names ID
2654184
Wiki­data ID
Q5001296
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In Other Languages

From Basque to Swedish—“Busby” goes by many names.
  • Basque: “Busby”
  • Cebuano: “Busby”
  • Dutch: “Busby”
  • French: “Busby”
  • Hungarian: “Busby”
  • Japanese: “バスビー”
  • Persian: “باسبی”
  • Spanish: “Busby”
  • Swedish: “Busby, Skottland”
  • Swedish: “Busby”

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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 “Busby”. Photo: Stephen Sweeney, CC BY-SA 2.0.