Kilsyth
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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: BJ Smur, CC BY-SA 2.0.
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Places of Interest
Highlights include Bar Hill Fort and Craigmarloch Stables, Forth and Clyde Canal, Kilsyth.
Bar Hill Fort
Archaeological site
Photo: Otter, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Bar Hill Fort was a Roman fort on the Antonine Wall in Scotland. It was built around the year 142 CE. Older maps and documents sometimes spell the name as Barr Hill.
Craigmarloch Stables, Forth and Clyde Canal, Kilsyth
Ruins
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Craigmarloch Stables, Forth and Clyde Canal, Kilsyth is a ruins.
Croy railway station
Railway station
Photo: Nigel Thompson, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Croy railway station serves the village of Croy – as well as the nearby town of Kilsyth and parts of Cumbernauld – in North Lanarkshire, Scotland. It is located on the Glasgow to Edinburgh via Falkirk Line, 11+1⁄2 miles northeast of Glasgow Queen Street.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Croy and Dullatur.
Croy
Village
Croy is a village in North Lanarkshire, Scotland. A former mining community, Croy is situated south of Kilsyth and north of Cumbernauld, some 13 miles from Glasgow and 37 miles from Edinburgh on the main railway line between the two cities.
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.
Twechar
Village
Photo: G Laird, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Twechar is a small former mining village historically in Dunbartonshire and administered by the council area of East Dunbartonshire, Scotland close to the boundary with North Lanarkshire.
Kilsyth
- Type: Town with 9,860 residents
- Description: town in North Lanarkshire, Scotland, UK
- Categories: small burgh and locality
- Location: North Lanarkshire, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
55.9765° or 55° 58′ 36″ northLongitude
-4.056° or 4° 3′ 22″ westPopulation
9,860Elevation
184 feet (56 metres)United Nations Location Code
GB KLTOpen location code
9C7QXWGV+JJOpenStreetMap ID
node 256253277OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Welsh—“Kilsyth” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “كيلسيث”
- Asturian: “Kilsyth”
- Basque: “Kilsyth”
- Bengali: “কিলসিথ”
- Cebuano: “Kilsyth”
- Chinese: “基尔赛斯”
- Dutch: “Kilsyth”
- Egyptian Arabic: “كيلسيث”
- French: “Kilsyth”
- German: “Kilsyth”
- Gujarati: “કિલ્સીથ”
- Hebrew: “קילסית‘”
- Irish: “Cill Saidh”
- Irish: “Cill Saidhe”
- Italian: “Kilsyth”
- Japanese: “キルシス”
- Kannada: “ಕಿಲ್ಸಿತ್”
- Korean: “킬시스”
- Lithuanian: “Kilsitas”
- Malagasy: “Kilsyth”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Kilsyth”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Kilsyth”
- Norwegian: “Kilsyth”
- Persian: “کیلسیت”
- Polish: “Kilsyth”
- Portuguese: “Kilsyth”
- Russian: “Килсайт”
- Scots: “Kilseyth”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Cill Saidh”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Cill Saidhe”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Kilsyth”
- Spanish: “Kilsyth”
- Swedish: “Kilsyth, Skottland”
- Swedish: “Kilsyth”
- Tamil: “கில்சியத்”
- Telugu: “కిల్స్త్”
- Urdu: “کیلسیتھ”
- Welsh: “Kilsyth”
- “Cill Saidh”
- “Kilsyth”
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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 Wikivoyage page “Kilsyth”. Photo: Excalibur, CC BY-SA 3.0.