Muir Wood
Muir Wood is a deciduous forest in Falkirk, Scotland. Muir Wood is situated nearby to the hamlet The Loan, as well as near the locality Causewayend.Places of Interest
Highlights include Almond Castle and Avon Aqueduct.
Almond Castle
Castle
Photo: Rob Burke, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Almond Castle is a ruined L-plan castle dating from the 15th century. It is located 3 miles west of Linlithgow, and north of the Union Canal, in Falkirk, Scotland.
Avon Aqueduct
Bridge
Photo: Eileen Henderson, CC BY-SA 2.0.
The Avon Aqueduct is a navigable aqueduct that carries the Union Canal over the River Avon, near Linlithgow, Scotland.
Polmont railway station
Railway station
Photo: Nigel Thompson, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Polmont railway station is a railway station serving the village of Polmont, Scotland as well as the other Falkirk Braes villages. It is located on the Glasgow to Edinburgh via Falkirk Line and is also served by ScotRail services from Edinburgh to Stirling and Dunblane.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Polmont and Linlithgow.
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.
Linlithgow
Photo: Xenophule, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Linlithgow is a small town in The Lothians in central lowland Scotland, 20 miles west of Edinburgh. It's a commuter town for the city, with a population in 2020 of 12,840.
Brightons
Village
Brightons is a village in the east of the Falkirk council area of Scotland. It is 2.7 miles south-east of Falkirk, 2.2 miles south of Grangemouth and 4.6 miles west of Linlithgow.
Muir Wood
- Type: Deciduous forest
- Category: forest
- Location: Falkirk, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
55.9661° or 55° 57′ 58″ northLongitude
-3.6804° or 3° 40′ 50″ westOpen location code
9C7RX889+CROpenStreetMap ID
way 532315960OpenStreetMap feature
natural=wood
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