Banknock
Banknock is a village within the Falkirk council area in Central Scotland. The village is 6.7 miles west-southwest of Falkirk, 3.9 miles east-northeast of Kilsyth and 3.0 miles north-northeast of Cumbernauld.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Village with 2,370 residents
- Description: village in Falkirk, Scotland, UK
- Also known as: “Baile nan Cnoc”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Cumbernauld Airport and Castle Cary Castle.
Cumbernauld Airport
Aerodrome
Photo: Pilotmony, Public domain.
Cumbernauld Airport is a general aviation airport located 16 NM northeast of Glasgow at Cumbernauld in North Lanarkshire, Scotland. It serves as an important reliever airport for Glasgow Airport and Edinburgh Airport.
Castle Cary Castle
Castle
Photo: carrickstone emily, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Castle Cary Castle is a fifteenth-century tower house near Castlecary, about 6 miles from Falkirk in Scotland. It is less than 3 miles from Cumbernauld Village. It is located near to the site of one of the principal Roman forts of the Antonine Wall.
Cumbernauld House
Park
Photo: Stevie Spiers, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Cumbernauld House is an 18th-century country house located in Cumbernauld, Scotland. It is located near in the Cumbernauld Glen, close to Cumbernauld Village, at grid reference NS772759. Cumbernauld House is situated 2 miles south of Banknock.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Haggs and Braeface.
Haggs
Village
Photo: Richard Webb, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Haggs is a small village in the Falkirk council area of Scotland. The village is situated 2.1 miles south-west of Bonnybridge, 4.6 miles north-northeast of Kilsyth and 2.0 miles south-southwest of Denny, on the east side of the M80 motorway which separates it from Banknock.
Castlecary
Village
Photo: carrickstone emily, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Castlecary is a small historic village in North Lanarkshire, Scotland, directly adjacent to the border with Falkirk. It has long been associated with infrastructure, being adjacent to a bridged river, a Roman fort and roads, a nationwide canal, a Victorian railway viaduct, and a modern motorway.
Banknock
- Category: locality
- Location: Falkirk, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
55.98982° or 55° 59′ 23″ northLongitude
-3.95538° or 3° 57′ 19″ westPopulation
2,370Elevation
194 feet (59 metres)Open location code
9C7RX2QV+WROpenStreetMap ID
node 634719548OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
11592109Wikidata ID
Q806814
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Satellite Map
Discover Banknock from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
In Other Languages
From Basque to Welsh—“Banknock” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Banknock”
- Breton: “Baile nan Cnoc”
- Chinese: “班克诺克”
- Dutch: “Banknock”
- French: “Banknock”
- German: “Banknock”
- Irish: “Baile nan Cnoc”
- Italian: “Banknock”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Baile nan Cnoc”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Banknock”
- Spanish: “Banknock”
- Swedish: “Banknock”
- Welsh: “Baile nan Cnoc”
- Welsh: “Banknock”
- “Baile nan Cnoc”
- “Banknock”
- “Banknock - Baile nan Cnoc”
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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 “Banknock”. Photo: Gordon Brown, CC BY-SA 2.0.