Muirhead Quarry
Muirhead Quarry is a historic site in North Lanarkshire, Scotland. Muirhead Quarry is situated nearby to the ruins Dullatur Colliery, as well as near Marsh.Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Cumbernauld Airport and Craigmarloch Stables, Forth and Clyde Canal, Kilsyth.
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.
Craigmarloch Stables, Forth and Clyde Canal, Kilsyth
Ruins
Photo: Texas Radio and The Big Beat, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Craigmarloch Stables, Forth and Clyde Canal, Kilsyth is a ruins, which is situated 1 mile west of Muirhead Quarry.
Guy’s Meadow
Sports venue
Photo: Chris Upson, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Cumbernauld United Football Club are a football club based in Cumbernauld, North Lanarkshire, Scotland. They play at Guy's Meadow in the Cumbernauld Village area of the town. Guy’s Meadow is situated 1 mile southeast of Muirhead Quarry.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Dullatur and Carrickstone.
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
Hamlet
Photo: Robert Murray, CC BY-SA 2.0.
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.
Muirhead Quarry
- Type: Historic site
- Also known as: “Dullatur Sand Quarry”
- Categories: tourist attraction and tourism
- Location: North Lanarkshire, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
55.97004° or 55° 58′ 12″ northLongitude
-4.0013° or 4° 0′ 5″ westOpen location code
9C7QXXCX+2FOpenStreetMap ID
node 4769696840OpenStreetMap feature
historic=yes
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Dullatur Colliery and Marsh.
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