Balmore
Balmore is a small village formerly in the county of Stirlingshire, but now lies in East Dunbartonshire, Scotland, located 1 km west of Torrance and 5 km east of Milngavie.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Village with 200 residents
- Description: village in East Dunbartonshire, Scotland, UK
- Also known as: “Balmore, East Dunbartonshire”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Wilderness Plantation and Bishopbriggs railway station.
Wilderness Plantation
Deciduous forest
Wilderness Plantation was the site of a Roman fortlet on the Antonine Wall in Scotland. The line of the Antonine Wall runs roughly parallel between the River Kelvin to the north and the Forth and Clyde Canal to the south.
Bishopbriggs railway station
Railway station
Photo: Nigel Thompson, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Bishopbriggs railway station is a railway station serving Bishopbriggs in East Dunbartonshire, Scotland. It is located on the Glasgow to Edinburgh via Falkirk Line, 3+1⁄4 miles north of Glasgow Queen Street, but is currently only served by services on the Croy Line. Bishopbriggs railway station is situated 2 miles south of Balmore.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Torrance and Cadder.
Torrance
Village
Photo: Chris Upson, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Torrance is a village in East Dunbartonshire, formerly Stirlingshire, Scotland, located eight miles north of Glasgow city centre. Torrance used to mainly consist of farmland.
Cadder
Suburb
Cadder is a district of the town of Bishopbriggs, East Dunbartonshire, Scotland. It is located 7 km north of Glasgow city centre, 0.5 km south of the River Kelvin, and approximately 1.5 km north-east of Bishopbriggs town centre, sited on the route of the Forth and Clyde Canal.
Bishopbriggs
Town
Photo: Raymond Okonski, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Bishopbriggs is a town in East Dunbartonshire, Scotland. It lies on the northern fringe of Greater Glasgow, approximately 4 miles from the city centre. Bishopbriggs is situated 2 miles south of Balmore.
Balmore
- Category: locality
- Location: East Dunbartonshire, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
55.93466° or 55° 56′ 5″ northLongitude
-4.23899° or 4° 14′ 20″ westPopulation
200Elevation
180 feet (55 metres)Open location code
9C7QWQM6+VCOpenStreetMap ID
node 18169205OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
12262325Wikidata ID
Q4852402
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Irish—“Balmore” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “بالمور”
- Basque: “Balmore”
- Dutch: “Balmore”
- Irish: “Am Baile Mór”
- Irish: “Am Baile Mòr”
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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 “Balmore”. Photo: Ritchyblack, FAL.