museum
Riverside Museum
Glasgow's Zaha Hadid-designed transport museum on the Clyde, packed with classic cars, a recreated cobbled street of vintage vehicles, and the tall ship Glenlee moored outside.
11 km · about 20 min drive
Scotland, United Kingdom · Europe
Waterfoot is worth a stop: 5 minutes from Netherlee, 42km from Loch Lomond.
Waterfoot is a town located in Scotland, United Kingdom. With a population of 1,260, it is an important destination in Europe.
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Waterfoot (Scots: Watterfit) is a hamlet in East Renfrewshire, Scotland. It is on the B767 road between Clarkston and Eaglesham, which are 1 mile (1.6 km) to the north and south respectively, while Newton Mearns is about 2 miles (3 km) to the west and East Kilbride about 5 miles (8 km) to the southeast. The hamletRead more
shares a community council with the neighbouring community of Eaglesham, the Eaglesham and Waterfoot Community Council meets in Eaglesham on a monthly basis.
During the Second World War, deputy leader of the Nazi party Rudolf Hess, crash landed in Floors Farm, west of the hamlet. He was arrested and held in custody until after the war, when he was tried at the Nuremberg trials.
The audio equipment manufacturer Linn Products has its factory to the southwest of Waterfoot.
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Waterfoot is located in Scotland, United Kingdom, Europe. The coordinates are 55.7694 latitude, -4.2837 longitude.
Waterfoot has a population of approximately 1,260 people, making it a town in United Kingdom.
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museum
Glasgow's Zaha Hadid-designed transport museum on the Clyde, packed with classic cars, a recreated cobbled street of vintage vehicles, and the tall ship Glenlee moored outside.
11 km · about 20 min drive
natural wonder
Britain's largest freshwater lake by surface area, where Highland mountains meet Lowland shores in a landscape immortalised in song.
42 km · about 50 min drive
landmark
Two 30-metre steel horse-head sculptures towering over the canal at Falkirk, a striking modern landmark off the M9.
43 km · about 50 min drive
castle
One of Scotland's largest and most important castles, sitting atop Castle Hill and closely associated with Scottish independence.
45 km · about 50 min drive
landmark
An outrageous 14m stone pineapple crowns this 1761 walled-garden folly, built for the Earl of Dunmore and rated among Britain's most eccentric buildings. Free to visit, hidden down a lane near Airth.
46 km · about 55 min drive
cafe
A popular stopping point on the A82 beside Loch Lomond, where road trippers heading to the Scottish Highlands pause to take in one of Scotland's most beautiful lochs.
48 km · about 55 min drive
famous road
Famous optical-illusion stretch of the A719 on the Ayrshire coast where cars appear to roll uphill. Drivers have pulled over to test the gravity-defying slope since the 1930s.
52 km · about 60 min drive
photogenic
Scotland's most complete 17th-century burgh: ochre-coloured Culross Palace, cobbled wynds and white-harled cottages on the Firth of Forth, preserved by the National Trust. Doubles as Cranesmuir in Outlander.
52 km · about 60 min drive
May to September
Far northern latitude: short daylight hours outside summer make long drives harder.
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