Waterfoot
Waterfoot is a village in East Renfrewshire, Scotland. It is on the B767 road between Clarkston and Eaglesham, which are 1 mile to the north and south respectively, while Newton Mearns is about 2 miles to the west and East Kilbride about 5 miles to the southeast.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Village with 1,260 residents
- Description: village in East Renfrewshire, Scotland, UK
- Also known as: “Waterfoot, East Renfrewshire”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Mearns Castle and Thorntonhall railway station.
Mearns Castle
Castle
Photo: wrobison, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Mearns Castle is a 15th-century tower house in Newton Mearns, East Renfrewshire, south of Glasgow, Scotland. It is a Category A listed building. The castle has been restored and is now part of the Maxwell Mearns Castle Church.
Thorntonhall railway station
Railway station
Photo: Rosser1954, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Thorntonhall railway station is a railway station serving the village of Thorntonhall, South Lanarkshire. The station is managed by ScotRail and is on the East Kilbride–Glasgow Central line.
Williamwood High School
School
Photo: Gordon McKinlay, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Williamwood High School is a non-denominational state secondary school in Clarkston, East Renfrewshire, 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 Thorntonhall and Busby.
Thorntonhall
Village
Photo: Stephen Sweeney, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Thorntonhall is an affluent village in South Lanarkshire, Scotland, lying around 6 miles to the south of Glasgow, and around 2+1⁄2 miles west of East Kilbride.
Busby
Village
Photo: Stephen Sweeney, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Busby is a village in East Renfrewshire, Scotland. Busby is in the Greater Glasgow urban area, but is administratively separate from Glasgow. It lies on the White Cart Water six miles south of Glasgow city centre and 3⁄4 mile northwest of the outskirts of East Kilbride.
Eaglesham
Village
Photo: Kenneth Mallard, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Eaglesham is a village in East Renfrewshire, Scotland, situated about 10 miles south of Glasgow, 3 miles southeast of Newton Mearns and south of Clarkston, and 4 miles southwest of East Kilbride. Eaglesham is situated 1½ miles south of Waterfoot.
Waterfoot
- Category: locality
- Location: East Renfrewshire, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
55.76323° or 55° 45′ 48″ northLongitude
-4.2812° or 4° 16′ 52″ westPopulation
1,260Elevation
325 feet (99 metres)Open location code
9C7QQP79+7GOpenStreetMap ID
node 2079940914OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
11592217Wikidata ID
Q7973987
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Welsh—“Waterfoot” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Waterfoot”
- Dutch: “Waterfoot”
- French: “Waterfoot (East Renfrewshire)”
- French: “Waterfoot”
- Persian: “واترفوت”
- Spanish: “Waterfoot”
- Welsh: “Waterfoot”
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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 “Waterfoot”. Photo: John McLeish, CC BY-SA 2.0.