Camelon

Camelon is a village within the Falkirk council area, . The village is in the Forth Valley, 1 mile west of , 1 mile south of and 3 miles east of .
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Wikipedia
Photo: David Kitching, CC BY-SA 2.0.
  • Type: Suburb with 4,510 residents
  • Description: village in Falkirk, Scotland, UK
  • Also known as: “Camalan” and “Camlann”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Camelon railway station and Falkirk Wheel.

Railway station
Photo: Nigel Thompson, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is a railway station serving the suburb of Camelon in , . It is located on the Edinburgh-Dunblane and Cumbernauld Lines. Train services are provided by ScotRail. The present station was opened in 1994.

Photo: SeanMack, CC BY 2.5.
The is a rotating boat lift in , , in central , connecting the with the . It opened in 2002 as part of the Millennium Link project, reconnecting the two canals for the first time since the 1930s.

Archaeological site
was a Roman fortlet on the in . It was located near what is now Lock Sixteen on the in Falkirk with neighbouring forts at to the west and to the east.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Tamfourhill and Bantaskin.

Suburb
Photo: Anne Burgess, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is a working-class residential suburb of within the Falkirk, . It is located approximately 1.5 miles west of the city centre.

Suburb
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is a suburb.

Suburb
is a large, prosperous central area of , Stirlingshire, , which is mainly residential. Much of the ward is taken up by leafy streets where property prices are among the highest in Central Scotland and includes Lochgreen, Slamannan, Rosebank, Gartcows and Southern Pleasance areas.

Camelon

Latitude
56.00407° or 56° 0′ 15″ north
Longitude
-3.81655° or 3° 48′ 60″ west
Population
4,510
Elevation
118 feet (36 metres)
Open location code
9C8R253M+J9
Open­Street­Map ID
node 26515975
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­suburb
Geo­Names ID
8063585
Wiki­data ID
Q1028477
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Satellite Map

Discover Camelon from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Welsh—“Camelon” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “كاميلون”
  • Basque: “Camelon”
  • Breton: “Camalan”
  • Breton: “Camlann”
  • Cebuano: “Camelon”
  • Cornish: “Camalan”
  • Cornish: “Camlann”
  • Dutch: “Camelon”
  • French: “Camelon”
  • Galician: “Camelon”
  • German: “Camelon”
  • Irish: “Camalan”
  • Irish: “Camlann”
  • Italian: “Camelon”
  • Manx: “Camalan”
  • Manx: “Camlann”
  • Persian: “کیملن”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Camalan”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Camelon”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Camlann”
  • Swedish: “Camelon”
  • Urdu: “کیملون”
  • Welsh: “Camalan”
  • Welsh: “Camelon”
  • Welsh: “Camlann”
  • “Camalan”
  • “Camelon”
  • “Camelon - Camalan”
  • “Camlann”

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