free visitor map inside! WELCOME to , Scotland! The Falkirk area sits at the very heart of Scotland, midway between and with excellent motorway and rail links and two international airports close by.

Falkirk is home to two of the world’s most unique attractions which are transforming the Scottish landscape: • The • in Helix Park

The Falkirk area is also home to a great range of further attractions including; the historic Callendar House and Park, a large section of the John Muir Way, the (a UNESCO World Heritage Site), Bo’ness and Kinneil Steam Railway, Blackness Castle, Kinneil House and Museum and much much more.

Why not Visit Falkirk today? Further details on the Falkirk area and attractions can be found in this leaflet, at www.visitfalkirk.com or you can follow us on Facebook and Twitter.

The Kelpies The Falkirk Wheel

The Helix The Helix has transformed 350 hectares in Falkirk into a brand new recreational green space and visitor attraction, including lagoon, wetlands, splash play area, trails and outdoor event space. The jewel within this project,The Kelpies, stand 30 metres tall, and are the world’s largest equine sculptures. Towering over the Forth & Clyde canal, they form a dramatic gateway to the canal entrance on the East Coast of Scotland. Visitors can experience a tour inside The Kelpies and hear all about their origin and inspiration. The Kelpie visitor centre and gift shop opens in 2015. The Falkirk Wheel Scotland’s most exciting example of 21st century engineering, The Falkirk Wheel, is the World’s first rotating boatlift and eye-catching working sculpture which links the Forth & Clyde Canal with the . A visitor centre, boat trips, play areas and over 100 acres of woodlands plus regular events and activities complement this unique attraction. Callendar House Heritage The Falkirk area is rich in history, with World Heritage UNESCO site the Antonine Wall; baronial mansion 5 star Callendar House, home to a working Georgian Kitchen; the Faw Kirk Graveyard;The Steeple; Dunmore Pineapple; Kinneil House and Museum; The Hippodrome in Bo’ness and the ship that never sailed Blackness Castle. Immerse yourself in 2000 years of heritage. Town Centres Falkirk and the surrounding areas have a lot to offer which includes the towns of Falkirk, Bo’ness, , Denny and Stenhousemuir. From speciality shopping and eating out, to Victorian fairs, markets, public art and festivals each town offers their own unique experience.

Falkirk Town Centre Outdoor Falkirk The Falkirk area is home to some amazing open spaces which make the perfect place to enjoy outdoor activities. Enjoy a relaxing day of fishing on the River Carron, the canals or at one of our local fisheries. If walking is more your thing, why not take on some of the John Muir Way, with the Falkirk sections allowing you to take in some of the great local sites including Callendar House, Falkirk Wheel, Blackness Castle and the Antonine Wall. There’s a great choice for the cyclist too, with Callendar Estate having various cycle trails set across 6,300 acres of land, and the Helix Around Town Tour offering a 16 mile route. There are also lots of options for golf, paintballing, and even options for archery, waterwalking, canoeing and skiing. To Perth & To Perth & the Highlands St Andrews

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Where to Stay M74 0 5 10 15 To Carlisle Kilometres A warmScale: welcome0 awaits5 10 & the South Miles you at a wide choice of hotels, guest houses and B&Bs, including over 600 quality assured rooms. With something to suit every taste and pocket, you’ll also find some beautifully situated and well-appointed self- catering houses, cottages and chalets in the area. Search for accommodation at www.visitfalkirk.com or www.visitscotland.com

How to Get Here The Falkirk area sits at the very heart of Local public transport Scotland, midway between Edinburgh and www.travelinescotland.com, Glasgow with excellent motorway and rail Tel. 0871 200 22 33 (24 hours) links and two international airports close by. New for 2015 Hop on Hop off bus linking Car from Carlisle and the South, take the the main tourist attractions in Falkirk - for M6, M74, M73 and join the M80 from Glasgow. more info go to www.visitfalkirk.com From Edinburgh take the M9. twitter.com/VFalkirk Train Direct services from London, Glasgow, Edinburgh and Inverness. facebook.com/visitfalkirk Air Edinburgh Airport (19 miles), visitfalkirk.com Glasgow Airport (33 miles) and

A Prestwick Airport (56 miles) NE FOR A' This leaflet excluding the map is also available in French, German, Italian, Spanish and Mandarin The Bo’ness & Kinneil Railway Bo’ness Town Centre Bo’ness is a beautiful town on the banks of the river Forth, steeped in history and folklore, where a warm welcome awaits you. Bo’ness is home to the Bo’ness and Kinneil Railway, the Bo’ness Motor Museum, the beautifully restored Hippodrome Cinema and Kinneil House, Museum and Estate is just a few minutes away from which you can access parts of the Antonine Wall. The town is easy to get around with a great mix of independent retailers. Falkirk Town Centre Falkirk is a historic town centre with a traditional high street. Enjoy the many speciality shops, award winning boutiques and the town centre heritage trail alongside the convenience of major high street brands. Falkirk has a fully pedestrianised town centre and two large shopping centres, the Howgate and Callendar Square, offering a diverse and exciting experience for visitors and residents alike. The town has a great selection of independent boutiques, specialty stores and gift shops, as well as high street regulars and fashion favourites. Nearby Central Retail Park also has a fantastic mix of leading national retailers, a 12 screen cinema and a range of restaurants. Bo’ness eventsdiary 2015

11th April 27th June 10th Oct Pirate and Princess Kinneil House Open Day Falkirk Tryst Piping Parade www.kinneil.wordpress.com Recital www.falkirkdelivers.com Kinneil House falkirktrystpipingrecital. Falkirk Town Centre wordpress.com 25th July Falkirk Trinity Church 18th & 19th April Airth Highland Games Kinneil House Open Day www.facebook.com/airthgames 31st October www.kinneil.wordpress.com Airth Kinneil House Open Day Kinneil House www.kinneil.wordpress.com 25th July Kinneil House 19th April Festival of the Sea John Muir Way Falkirk www.falkirkdelivers.com 31st Oct & 1st Nov Challenge Grangemouth Town Centre Steam & Scream [email protected] www.bkrailway.co.uk 1st & 2nd August Banknock through to Bo’ness & Kinneil Railway Day Out with Thomas 25th April www.bkrailway.co.uk 5th Nov Stenhousemuir Bo’ness & Kinneil Railway Fireworks Display Charities Day www.falkirkcommunitytrust.org 1st August Callendar House www.falkirkdelivers.com Stenhousemuir Town Centre Tom Jones www.rockthestadium.co.uk Nov & Dec 15th May Falkirk Stadium Regular Festive Events Kinneil House Open Day www.falkirkdelivers.com 29th August Falkirk, Bo’ness, Grangemouth, www.kinneil.wordpress.com Stenhousemuir & Denny Town Kinneil House Kinneil House Open Day www.kinneil.wordpress.com Centres 16th & 17th May Kinneil House 4th Dec Day Out with Thomas 5th & 6th Sept Festive Farmers Market www.bkrailway.co.uk www.falkirkdelivers.com Bo’ness & Kinneil Railway Bo’ness Hill Climb www.bonesshillclimb.org.uk Falkirk Town Centre 6th – 14th June Bo’ness 28th & 29th Nov Forth Valley Open Studios 12th & 13th Sept 5th & 6th Dec www.forthvalleyopenstudios.com Throughout the area Day Out with Thomas 12th & 13th Dec www.bkrailway.co.uk 19th & 20th Dec 14th June Bo’ness & Kinneil Railway Santa Trains John Muir Way Falkirk 19th Sept www.bkrailway.co.uk Challenge Bo’ness & Kinneil Railway [email protected] Kinneil House Open Day Polmont through to Blackness www.kinneil.wordpress.com Remember Falkirk Farmers Market Kinneil House in Falkirk Town Centre is on the 26th June 1st Friday of every month. 19th -27th Sept Bo’ness Children’s Fair Big Roman Week Please note dates may be subject www.thefairday.com to change please check with Bo’ness Town Centre [email protected] Bigromanweek.org.uk coordinators before travel. 1 Antonine Wall 2 River Avon 3 Barbara 4 Blackness 5 Bo’ness and 6 Bo’ness Motor Built by the Romans around Heritage Trail Davidson Castle Kinneil Railway Museum AD142 as the frontier of their (near Muiravonside) Shaped like a ship and situated Central Scotland’s steam railway by the A private collection of over 20 vehicles Empire, the Antonine Wall is Pottery Firth of Forth, with a 10 mile round trip now a UNESCO World Heritage Explore 9 miles of spectacular on a promontory which juts out ranging from a Baby Austin A30 to a scenery between Avonbridge A working pottery which has into the Forth, this 15th century calling at Kinneil Halt, Birkhill Station Grand Tourer Aston Martin. Enjoy a Site. Substantial lengths of this been run by Barbara Davidson and over the River Avon viaduct. Don’t remarkable monument can still and Linlithgow passing through castle is known as the ship that snack in Miss Moneypenny’s diner and Muiravonside Country Park and for over 40 years. There is a never sailed. miss the Museum of Scottish Railways keep the young ones amused in the be seen at various sites across at Bo’ness Station and look out for under the Avon aqueduct which pottery shop and a gift shop in soft play area, the Little Monsters Fun the Falkirk area. Blackness, EH49 7NH special events, including visits by carries the Union Canal. the old farm buildings. Factory. www.falkirk.gov.uk/antoninewall Price: See website Thomas the Tank engine. Central Scotland Forest Trust Muirhall Farm, Larbert, www.historic-scotland.gov.uk Bridgeness Road, Bo’ness, EH51 9JR. Free Falkirk, FK5 4EW Bo’ness Station, Union Street, www.csft.co.uk Tel: 01506 834807 Bo’ness, EH51 9AQ www.motor-museum.bo-ness.org.uk Tel: 01501 822015 www.barbara-davidson.com www.bkrailway.co.uk Tel: 01506 827007 27 Xtreme Karting Tel: 01324 554430 Free Tel. Station 01506 822298 Experience the thrill and adrenaline of Free Office (weekdays) 01506 825855 indoor karting at its best at Scotland’s 7 The Bridgeness Slab only 5 star karting centre. (Rated by VisitScotland) A Roman legionary distance marker A9 B902 Key stone was found in Bo’ness in 1868. Lochlands Business Park, One of the best examples of its kind, it A905 A907 Larbert, Falkirk, FK5 3NS. A876 Falkirk Town Centre Key Motorway is displayed at the National Museum of www.xtremekarting.co.uk 1 Motorway Junction Shopping Centres Scotland in Edinburgh and a replica has A91 A Roads Tel: 01324 579797 Central Retail Streets been installed at Kinnigars Park. A977 P Falkirk Park B9037 Pedestrian Area B Roads Kinnigars Park, Grahamston Tourist Information P Car Parks Dollar Park i Harbour Road, Stiirling Tourist Information Fife i 9 EH51 9LD 10 A904 Mainline Railway 26 Stirling 3 m A803 Free Wellsfield Farm Perth 36 m 12 P Steam Railway Activity Centre Airth Railway Stations 15 Canal Wellsfield Farm offers a unique selection B9124 i P River of on-site leisure activities and high M9 A985 11 Built-up Areas 8 quality holiday lodges. Activities include B8080 P A985 Callendar Estate Parks a Farm park, Equestrian Centre, Trout Forthview A994A994 Golf Range Cycle Trails Fishery, Coffee Shop and Health Club A803 1 Attractions A872 B90377 Free entry to attraction. 19km of single track cycle trails through Free Stirling Road, Denny, Stirlingshire, A876 From Falkirk Town Centre Fees may apply for specific activities or events. mature woodland offering a great day Avon Gorge Trail Scotland, UK, FK6 6QZ. 2 out for all the family. The trails are www.wellsfield.co.uk Glasgow 25 miles 9 Antonine Wall (line of) graded from beginner to advanced Edinburgh 25 miles Tel: 01324 822800 Antonine Wall (visible remains) providing something for everyone. M876 3 Stirling 14 miles Par 3 Course Callendar Park 1 Kinneil Estate 7 Perth 47 miles 0 500 2 Callendar Park Greenrig Car Park, 25 Carlisle 109 miles B803 MMetresetres Polmonthill 8 Scale: 0 500 3 in Tamfourhill Lochgreen Road, Falkirk FK13AZ YYaardrdss www.callendarestate.co.uk Snowsports Centre 4 Rough Castle Falkirk High near Falkirk Wheel and Bonnybridge Free All year round skiing and snowboarding 26 5 Seabegs Wood near Bonnybridge with 100m long artificial ski slope and Glenbervie John Muir Way A9 GC 20m nursery slope. Lessons available. A88 Polmont Farm, Polmont, 9 Callendar House Falkirk, FK2 0YE M80 B902 Falkirk Tryst and Park www.falkirkcommunitytrust.org 2 3 GC Stenhousemuir Tel: 01324 503835 A905 Fir th of For th Over 2000 years of history are waiting to be discovered. Don’t miss the Georgian Larbert B905 kitchen with costumed interpreters bringing history to life, and leave time M876 24 A883 Larbert to explore the magnificent park and Muiravonside Denny Bo’ness woodlands, including a section of the i Antonine Wall. Country Park Kinneil 18 6 River Carron A9 5 170 acres of woodland, parkland and l Callendar Park, Falkirk, FK1 1YR 1 27 B906 lyde Cana 6 7 gardens with nature trails, picnic sites Forth & C 17 20 A993 www.falkirkcommunitytrust.org Grangemouth A904 A904 Tel: 01324 503770 and a Visitor Centre. In and around the A883 Falkirk 19 Bonnybridge GC B902 B9132 1 restored farm buildings you can see A872 GC Bo’ness Free ponies, pigs, goats, ducks and chickens. Camelon 14 Glasgow 18 m A803 22 B9143 21 Carlisle 102 m Falkirk Grahamston 10 The Loan, By Linlithgow, EH49 6LN P A904 Blackness The Dunmore www.falkirkcommunitytrust.org A803 Camelon 4 5 A706 Tel: 01506 845311 P 25 1 Pineapple 5 4 13 3 A9 A905 i B8080 B903 This unusual structure was built in 1761 Free West Lothian B816 GC by an unknown architect as a garden 5 Falkirk High 2 Birkhill Union Canal 16 retreat. View the exterior from the 23 B816 Grangemouth B9109 The Milkbarn Ice GC Bonnybridge A803 walled garden and orchard. Explore the surrounding woodland and ponds which Cream Parlour 16 A904 8 B810 teem with wildlife. An artisan ice cream parlour and café, Polmont Near Airth, Falkirk, FK2 8LU with kids play area, cycle racks and a B803 Polmont 4 M9 A803 3 (Signed from the A905) fibreglass cow to practice your milking Edinburgh 14 m Falkirk Edinburgh Airport 9 m www.nts.org.uk technique on. Tel: 0844 493 2132 Glen Farm,Glen Village, Falkirk FK1 3AA B8029 23 2 Free www.themilkbarn.co.uk Linlithgow Linlithgow Tel: 01324 630703 B805 B9080 11 Falkirk Steeple A801 and Visitor 22 Information Point The Mariner Polmont Union Canal GC B825 A local landmark since the late 15th Leisure Centre 2 century, the Steeple housed the town lock up and today serves as an information Lagoon-shaped leisure pool with beach 24 A706 area and wave machine, plus soft play point and box office for Falkirk Town Hall, area and lots more. B8028 The Hippodrome and other local venues. Glasgow Road, Camelon, FK1 4HJ High Street, Falkirk, FK1 1NW www.falkirkcommunitytrust.org www.falkirkcommunitytrust.org Tel: 01324 503750 Wesst Tel: 01324 506850 Stirling Free Falkirk 12 Edinburgh Falkirk Town Hall Glasgow Avon 21 r Lothiaian Kinneil House, e iv R Theatre, Music Slamannan Museum & Estate B792 Avonbridge and Cinema A historic house, open on selected Carefully selected range of live music, days and surrounded by parkland and 1201 3 woodland which includes remains of a Kilometres B825 drama, dance, comedy and film, with Scale: 0.5 0 12 B8047 Roman fortlet and the Antonine Wall. Miles B8028 activities for families, workshops and Kinneil Museum displays 2,000 years A801 exhibitions. © 2010 Falkirk Council. No part of this map may be reproducedB803 without the permission of Falkirk Council. of history from Roman times to the Designed by Scribble Design Ltd. 01698 850342 A899 West Bridge Street, Falkirk, FK1 5RS present day. Price: See programme online Kinneil Estate, Bo’ness, EH51 0PR for details. www.kinneil.org.uk • Tel: 01506 778530 www.falkirkcommunitytrust.org Tel: 01324 506850 Free 20 Kinneil Brew 19 Jupiter Urban 18 The 17 The Helix 16 The John Muir 15 The Faw Kirk 14 Falkirk 13 Falkirk Wheel and Hoose and Wildlife Centre Hippodrome A new 350 hectare park and Way The graveyard at Falkirk Old Stadium Tourist Information visitor attraction. The first and St Modan’s Parish Church The Corbie Inn The Scottish Wildlife Trust has Cinema phase opened Autumn 2013, Opening April 2014 - the John contains important historical Home to Falkirk Football The world’s first and only rotating created 10 acres of wildlife Muir Way stretches for 134 Club and Café Westfield boatlift, the Falkirk Wheel offers a unique A micro brewery with bar / Scotland’s oldest picture including lagoon, wetlands, memorials from the era of gardens and habitats including splash play area, trails miles across Central Scotland. William Wallace, the Battle of which has panoramic experience, designed to connect the restaurant attached. View the wetlands, woodlands and palace, over 100 years old and A large section of the route can views of the pitch. Union Canal with the Forth and Clyde brewery and taste real ales and beautifully restored. Screening and outdoor event space. Two Falkirk in 1298 and the second meadows. massive sculptures, The be found in the Falkirk area, Battle of Falkirk in 1746. Falkirk Stadium, Canal 115ft below. cask beers. the latest releases and classic a must for walking & cycling Wood Street, Grangemouth, Kelpies, Manse Place, Falkirk, FK1 1JN 4 Stadium Way, The Falkirk Wheel, Lime Road, 84 Corbiehall, Bo’ness, films. Look out for the annual enthusiasts. FK3 8LH will be completed by Summer www.falkirktrinity.org.uk Falkirk, FK2 9EE Falkirk, FK1 4RS • Tel: 08700 500208 EH51 OAS Festival of Silent Cinema (early www.swt.org.uk 2014). 2014, Johnmuirway.org Tel: 01324 611017 www.falkirkstadium.co.uk www.thefalkirkwheel.co.uk www.corbieinn.co.uk Tel: 01324 486475 or 07739 alongside a new canal link. tel 01324 618740 Tourist Info: 0845 859 1006 10 Hope Street, Bo’ness, Free Free Tel: 01506 825307 428203 www.visitscotland.com EH51 0AA. www.thehelix.co.uk Free www.falkirkcommunitytrust.org Free Tel: 01324 506850