Bearsden
Bearsden is a town 6 miles northwest of Glasgow in East Dunbartonshire on Clydeside, with a population of 28,500 in 2022. The main reason to visit is the Roman bath house, built in the brief period when the Romans occupied the Antonine Wall.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Town with 27,300 residents
- Description: town in East Dunbartonshire, Scotland, UK
- Also known as: “East Kilpatrick” and “New Kilpatrick”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Antonine Wall and Hillfoot railway station.
Antonine Wall
Ruins
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
The Antonine Wall was a turf fortification on stone foundations, built by the Romans across what is now the Central Belt of Scotland, between the Firth of Clyde and the Firth of Forth.
Hillfoot railway station
Railway station
Photo: Rosser1954, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Hillfoot railway station is a railway station in Bearsden, East Dunbartonshire near Glasgow, Scotland. The station is managed by ScotRail and is served by their trains on the Argyle and North Clyde Lines.
Westerton railway station
Railway station
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Milngavie and Drumchapel.
Milngavie
Photo: Andy Mitchell, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Milngavie is a town in Clydeside in the Central Belt of Scotland. With a population of just under 13,000 in 2022, it's a commuter and retirement town for Glasgow six miles to the southwest.
Drumchapel
Suburb
Photo: AlasdairW, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Drumchapel, known locally as 'The Drum', is a district in the north-west of the city of Glasgow, Scotland. It borders Bearsden to the north-east and Drumry to the south-west, as well as Blairdardie, Garscadden, Knightswood and Yoker in Glasgow to the south; land to the north is undeveloped and includes the course of the Roman-era Antonine Wall.
Faifley
Village
Photo: Stephen Sweeney, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Faifley is a large estate forming part of the town of Clydebank, Scotland, adjoining the former village of Hardgate, with a population of approximately 5,001. Faifley is situated 2½ miles west of Bearsden.
Bearsden
- Categories: small burgh and locality
- Location: East Dunbartonshire, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
55.9205° or 55° 55′ 14″ northLongitude
-4.3332° or 4° 19′ 60″ westPopulation
27,300Elevation
161 feet (49 metres)United Nations Location Code
GB BSDOpen location code
9C7QWMC8+5POpenStreetMap ID
node 18167377OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Welsh—“Bearsden” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “برزدن”
- Asturian: “Bearsden”
- Azerbaijani: “Bersden”
- Basque: “Bearsden”
- Belarusian: “Берсдэн”
- Bengali: “বিয়ার্সডেন”
- Bulgarian: “Беърсден”
- Catalan: “Bearsden”
- Cebuano: “Bearsden”
- Chinese: “拜尔斯顿”
- Chinese: “貝爾斯登 (蘇格蘭)”
- Chinese: “貝爾斯登”
- Chinese: “贝尔斯登 (苏格兰)”
- Chinese: “贝尔斯登”
- Czech: “Bearsden”
- Dutch: “Bearsden”
- Egyptian Arabic: “برزدن”
- Finnish: “Bearsden”
- French: “Bearsden”
- German: “Bearsden”
- Gujarati: “બિઅર્સડેન”
- Hebrew: “בירזדן”
- Indonesian: “Bearsden”
- Irish: “Bearsden”
- Irish: “Cill Phádraig Úr”
- Irish: “Cille Phádraig Úr”
- Irish: “Cille Phàdraig Ùr”
- Italian: “Bearsden”
- Japanese: “ベアーズデン”
- Kannada: “ಬೇರ್ಸ್ಡನ್”
- Korean: “비어스덴”
- Lithuanian: “Bersdenas”
- Persian: “برزدن”
- Polish: “Bearsden”
- Portuguese: “Bearsden”
- Romanian: “Bearsden”
- Russian: “Берсден”
- Russian: “Бэрсден”
- Scots: “Bearsden”
- Scots: “Easter Kirkpatrick”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Bearsden”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Cille Phàdraig Ùr”
- Silesian: “Bearsden”
- Slovak: “Bearsden”
- South Azerbaijani: “برزدن”
- Spanish: “Bearsden”
- Swedish: “Bearsden”
- Tamil: “பெயர்ஸ்ட்டேன்”
- Telugu: “బీర్స్ డెన్”
- Turkish: “Bearsden”
- Ukrainian: “Бірсден”
- Urdu: “بیارسدین”
- Welsh: “Bearsden”
- Welsh: “Cill Phàdraig Ùr”
- “Bearsden”
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