Kelvinhead
Kelvinhead is a small hamlet in the vicinity of the village of Banton in Scotland. Located close to the source of the River Kelvin, it is little more than a collection of a few houses along the A803 road between Kilsyth and Banknock.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Robert Murray, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Cumbernauld Airport and Cumbernauld House.
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.
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 southeast of Kelvinhead.
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. Castle Cary Castle is situated 2 miles east of Kelvinhead.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Banton and Dullatur.
Banton
Village
Photo: BJ Smur, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Banton is a small village situated near Kilsyth in North Lanarkshire, Scotland.
Dullatur
Village
Photo: Jim Bain, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Kilsyth is a town on Clydeside, historically part of Lanarkshire, in the Central Belt of Scotland. It's 15 miles northeast of Glasgow near the watershed between the Clyde and Forth river catchments, at a point where the natural lowland routes become pinched between the Lanarkshire moors, the abrupt Campsie Fells, and sucking bogs.
Carrickstone
Suburb
Carrickstone is an area of Cumbernauld, Scotland. It is on the north of the M80 and west of Cumbernauld Town Centre. The area it now occupies used to be covered by Carrickstone farm with the 25 inch Ordnance Survey map showing it between an ancient "standing stone" and The Village.
Kelvinhead
- Type: Hamlet
- Description: small hamlet in the vicinity of the village of Banton in Scotland
- Category: locality
- Location: North Lanarkshire, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
55.9838° or 55° 59′ 2″ northLongitude
-3.99401° or 3° 59′ 39″ westElevation
226 feet (69 metres)Open location code
9C7RX2M4+G9OpenStreetMap ID
node 556383191OpenStreetMap feature
place=hamlet
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In Other Languages
“Kelvinhead” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Kelvinhead”
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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 “Kelvinhead”. Photo: Robert Murray, CC BY-SA 2.0.