Skinflats
Skinflats is a nature reserve in Scotland, United Kingdom. Skinflats is situated nearby to the town Kincardine, as well as near the hamlet New Row.Places of Interest
Highlights include Kincardine Bridge and The Kelpies.
Kincardine Bridge
Bridge
Photo: Ian Mitchell, CC BY-SA 2.0.
The Kincardine Bridge is a road bridge crossing the Firth of Forth from Falkirk to Kincardine, Fife, Scotland.
The Kelpies
Photo: Steven Straiton, CC BY 2.0.
The Kelpies are a pair of monumental steel horse-heads between the Scottish towns of Falkirk and Grangemouth. They stand next to the M9 motorway and form the eastern gateway of the Forth and Clyde Canal, which meets the River Carron here.
Grangemouth Town Hall
Town hall
Photo: Tom Sargent, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Grangemouth Town Hall is a municipal structure in Bo'ness Road, Grangemouth, Scotland. The structure was the meeting place of Grangemouth Burgh Council until 1937 and remains the main events venue in the area.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Culross and Polmont.
Culross
Photo: HARTLEPOOLMARINA2014, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Culross is a very attractive village in Fife on the north bank of the Firth of Forth. In the 16th and 17th centuries its merchants grew rich from coal, salt and limestone, trading especially with the Low Countries, and building themselves fine town houses.
Polmont
Photo: Kim Traynor, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Polmont is a village five miles east of Falkirk in Stirlingshire in central Scotland. It's mainly a commuter village for Edinburgh and Stirling. Grangemouth just north is a busy port and petrochemical town, also described on this page.
Falkirk
Photo: AlasdairW, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Falkirk is a town in the central belt of Scotland, traditionally in Stirlingshire but since 1996 a unitary authority, effectively a metropolis. It's industrial and in 2020 had a population of 35,590.
Skinflats
- Type: Nature reserve
- Category: recreation area
- Location: Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
56.047° or 56° 2′ 49″ northLongitude
-3.7222° or 3° 43′ 20″ westOpen location code
9C8R27WH+Q4OpenStreetMap ID
node 7131996398OpenStreetMap feature
leisure=nature_reserve
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