Braidbar Quarries
Braidbar Quarries is a military installation in East Renfrewshire, Scotland. Braidbar Quarries is situated near the sports venue Giffnock North Amateur Athletic Club, as well as near Huntly Park.Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights: Giffnock railway station and Giffnock Newton Mearns Synagogue.
Giffnock railway station
Railway station
Giffnock railway station is a railway station serving the town of Giffnock, East Renfrewshire. The station is managed by ScotRail and is on the East Kilbride–Glasgow Central line. The station was closed for four months for modernisation works to commence. Giffnock railway station is situated 1,300 feet west of Braidbar Quarries.
Giffnock Newton Mearns Synagogue
Synagogue
The Giffnock Newton Mearns Synagogue, commonly known as Giffnock Shul, is an Orthodox Jewish congregation and synagogue, located at 222 Fenwick Road in Giffnock, East Renfrewshire, to the south of Glasgow, Scotland, in the United Kingdom. Giffnock Newton Mearns Synagogue is situated 2,400 feet southwest of Braidbar Quarries.
Muirend railway station
Railway station
Muirend railway station is an island platform suburban railway station in the Muirend area of Glasgow, Scotland. The station, which opened in 1903, is managed by ScotRail and lies on the Neilston branch of the Cathcart Circle Lines. Muirend railway station is situated 3,500 feet northeast of Braidbar Quarries.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Giffnock and Netherlee.
Giffnock
Town
Giffnock is a town and the administrative centre of East Renfrewshire in the Central Lowlands of Scotland. It lies 3.7 miles east of Barrhead, 5.6 miles east-southeast of Paisley and 5.3 miles northwest of East Kilbride, at the southwest of the Greater Glasgow conurbation.
Netherlee
Suburb
Netherlee is an area of East Renfrewshire, Scotland. It is situated on the west bank of the White Cart Water about 4 miles south of Glasgow city centre.
Merrylee
Suburb
Merrylee is a neighbourhood in the Scottish city of Glasgow. It is situated south of the River Clyde within the Newlands/Auldburn ward surrounded by other residential areas: Newlands, Cathcart and Muirend, and is a housing scheme consisting of mostly ex-local authority homes constructed in the 1950s and 60s.
Braidbar Quarries
Latitude
55.8036° or 55° 48′ 13″ north
Longitude
-4.28659° or 4° 17′ 12″ west
Open location code
9C7QRP37+C9
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
landuse=military
OpenStreetMap feature
military=danger_area
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights: Giffnock North Amateur Athletic Club and Huntly Park.
Nearby Places
Places to explore: Giffnock North Amateur Athletic Club and Braidbar Primary School.
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