Loanhead
Loanhead is a hamlet in North Lanarkshire, Scotland. Loanhead is situated nearby to the hamlet Blacktongue Farm, as well as near Torbrex.Places of Interest
Highlights include Cumbernauld railway station and Greenfaulds railway station.
Cumbernauld railway station
Railway station
Photo: Euan Nelson, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Cumbernauld railway station serves the town of Cumbernauld in North Lanarkshire, Scotland. The station is managed by ScotRail and is located on the Cumbernauld Line, 14 miles north east of Glasgow Queen Street station and the Motherwell to Cumbernauld Line, 11+3⁄4 miles north of Motherwell. Cumbernauld railway station is situated 2 miles northwest of Loanhead.
Greenfaulds railway station
Railway station
Photo: Jim Smillie, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Greenfaulds railway station serves the Greenfaulds area of the town of Cumbernauld in North Lanarkshire, Scotland. It is also within walking distance of the Lenziemill industrial estate, the Luggie Water and the Blairlinn industrial estate. Greenfaulds railway station is situated 2 miles northwest of Loanhead.
Cumbernauld Academy
School
Cumbernauld Academy is a comprehensive secondary school in Cumbernauld, Scotland. The original Cumbernauld High School was designed by Scottish architects Gratton & McLean and it opened in 1964 as a non-denominational, co-educational, secondary school. Cumbernauld Academy is situated 2 miles northwest of Loanhead.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Greengairs and Wattston.
Greengairs
Village
Photo: Raymond Okonski, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Greengairs is a village in North Lanarkshire, Scotland. Greengairs is shown on a map by Roy c.1754 under the name of Green Geirs. In toponymy, the name means "green strips of grass".
Wattston
Village
Photo: Richard Webb, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Wattston is a village on the B803, west of Greengairs in North Lanarkshire, Scotland. Between them Wattston and Greengairs have about 1,190 residents. It is around 4 km south of Cumbernauld, and 4 km north of Airdrie.
Carbrain
Suburb
Carbrain /kar 'bren/ is a neighbourhood in Cumbernauld, North Lanarkshire in Scotland. It gets a brief mention on William Roy's eighteenth century map of the Scottish Lowlands. Carbrain is situated 2½ miles northwest of Loanhead.
Loanhead
- Type: Hamlet
- Category: locality
- Location: North Lanarkshire, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
55.9209° or 55° 55′ 15″ northLongitude
-3.94213° or 3° 56′ 32″ westOpen location code
9C7RW3C5+94OpenStreetMap ID
node 253652600OpenStreetMap feature
place=hamlet
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