Bar Hill Fort
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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Otter, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Photo: Otter, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: Archaeological site
- Description: site of Roman fort on the Antonine Wall in central Scotland
- Also known as: “Bar Hill fort”, “Bar Hill Roman fort”, and “Bar Hill Roman Fort”
- Wheelchair access: no
Photo: Otter, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Photo: Otter, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Broadwood Stadium and Croy railway station.
Broadwood Stadium
Stadium
Photo: Chris Upson, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Broadwood Stadium is a multi-use community stadium and sports complex in the Westfield area of Cumbernauld, North Lanarkshire. The stadium is currently the home of Scottish League One side Hamilton Academical, as well as Cumbernauld Colts of the Scottish Lowland Football League, and Rangers W.F.C of the Scottish Women's Premier League. Broadwood Stadium is situated 1½ miles southeast of Bar Hill Fort.
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. Croy railway station is situated 1½ miles east of Bar Hill Fort.
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 2 miles northeast of Bar Hill Fort.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Twechar and Croy.
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.
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.
Kilsyth
Photo: Excalibur, CC BY-SA 3.0.
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.
Bar Hill Fort
Latitude
55.95892° or 55° 57′ 32″ northLongitude
-4.07196° or 4° 4′ 19″ westOpen location code
9C7QXW5H+H6OpenStreetMap ID
way 206923634OpenStreetMap feature
historic=archaeological_siteOpenStreetMap attribute
wheelchair=noWikidata ID
Q12012421
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In Other Languages
“Bar Hill Fort” goes by many names.
- Dutch: “Bar Hill Fort”
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