Bar Hill Fort

#711 among destinations in the United Kingdom

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Bar Hill Fort was a Roman fort on the Antonine Wall in Scotland. It was built around the year 142 A.D. Older maps and documents sometimes spell the name as Barr Hill. A computer generated fly around for the site has been produced. Lidar scans have been done along the length of the wall including Bar Hill. Sir George Macdonald wrote about the excavation of the site. Many other artefacts have also been found at Shirva, about a mile away on the other side of Twechar. ()

Coordinates: 55°57'33"N, 4°4'19"W

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Bar Hill Fort – popular in the area (distance from the attraction)

Nearby attractions include: Cumbernauld town centre, Dullatur Golf Club, Antonine Centre, Auld Aisle Cemetery.

3.3 miE
Shopping, Shopping centre
Cumbernauld town centre, Cumbernauld
84 min walk • Cumbernauld town centre is the commercial centre of the new town of Cumbernauld, Scotland.
2.3 miE
Outdoor activities, Golf
Dullatur Golf Club, Cumbernauld
59 min walk • Dullatur Golf Club is a notable golf course located in Dullatur, near Cumbernauld, in Scotland. Notable members include Barry who played for 5 years on the Catalina Cup Tour in Australia from 2012 until 2017.
3.3 miE
Shopping, Shopping centre
Antonine Centre, Cumbernauld
84 min walk • The Antonine Centre is a shopping centre in the Scottish New Town of Cumbernauld. The centre has 350,000 sq ft of retail space including a 100,000 sq ft Tesco Extra and a 43,000 sq ft Dunnes which closed in 2018,This was replaced by a TJ Hughes in 2019.
3.2 miSW
Cemetery
Auld Aisle Cemetery, Kirkintilloch
81 min walk • The Auld Aisle Cemetery is located in Kirkintilloch, East Dunbartonshire, Scotland. The cemetery is protected as a category A listed building, and includes graves dating back to the eighteenth century.
3.2 miW
Hiking, Hiking trail
Strathkelvin Railway Path, Kirkintilloch
82 min walk • Strathkelvin Railway Path is rail trail following the route of several dismantled railway lines extending from Gartcosh to Strathblane.
3.6 miSE
Park
Lenziemill, Cumbernauld
93 min walk • Lenziemill is the site one of Cumbernauld's several industrial estates, built as satellite developments on the periphery of the Scottish town's residential areas.
1.6 miE
Forts and castles
Croy Hill
42 min walk • Croy Hill was a Roman fort, fortlet, and probable temporary camp on the Antonine Wall, near Croy, to the north east of the village in Scotland. Two communication platforms known as ‘expansions’ can be seen to the west of the fortlet. Alexander Park excavated the site in 1890-1891.
2.1 miNE
Park
Colzium, Kilsyth
55 min walk • Colzium House and Estate is about 500 metres to the north-east of Kilsyth, North Lanarkshire, Scotland. The present house dates from 1783 and was extended and modernised in 1861. The name may mean "defile leap".
0.6 miN
Ruins of an ancient Roman fortification
Antonine Wall, Kilsyth
15 min walk • The Antonine Wall, known to the Romans as Vallum Antonini, was a turf fortification on stone foundations, built by the Romans across what is now the Central Belt of Scotland, between the Firth of Forth and the Firth of Clyde.
3.3 miSW
Aqueduct
Luggie Aqueduct, Kirkintilloch
86 min walk • The Luggie Aqueduct carries the Forth & Clyde Canal over the Luggie Water at Kirkintilloch, to the north of Glasgow.It is a Category A listed building.
3.3 miE
Library
Cumbernauld College, Cumbernauld
85 min walk • New College Lanarkshire is a further education institution in Scotland in North Lanarkshire. The college was created on November 2013 from the merger of Cumbernauld College and Motherwell College, and in 2014 it absorbed Coatbridge College.