Broadwood Nature Reserve

Broadwood Nature Reserve is a nature reserve in North Lanarkshire, Scotland. Broadwood Nature Reserve is situated nearby to the quarter Collingwood, as well as near the suburb Blackwood.

Places of Interest

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.

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.

Bar Hill Fort

Archaeological site

Photo: Otter, CC BY-SA 3.0.

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.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Cumbernauld and Kilsyth.

Cumbernauld

Photo: Sarah McGuire, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Cumbernauld is a town on Clydeside in central Scotland, 13 miles northeast of Glasgow, with a population of 50,500 in 2022. Its centre is a drab vista of 1960s "New Town" concrete plazas and shopping centres, and most visitors are just stopping over on the way to the Highlands.

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.

Kirkintilloch

Photo: StaraBlazkova, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Kirkintilloch is an industrial town in the Clydeside area of central Scotland, with a population in 2022 of 20,000. It's about 8 miles northeast of central Glasgow, on the Forth and Clyde Canal.

Broadwood Nature Reserve

Type: Nature reserve
Category: recreation area
Location: North Lanarkshire, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude

55.9408° or 55° 56′ 27″ north

Longitude

-4.0473° or 4° 2′ 50″ west

Open location code

9C7QWXR3+83

OpenStreetMap ID

way 544652900

OpenStreetMap feature

leisure=nature_reserve

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Highlights include Broadwood Loch and Blackwood West Roundabout.

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