skip to main content
Menu
  • Blog
    • Art & design
    • Castles
    • Cycling
    • Edinburgh
    • Edinburgh Festival
    • Food & drink
    • General
    • History
    • Music
    • Sport
    • Walking
    • Whisky
    • Wildlife
  • Castles
    • Glossary
    • Mottes
    • Stay in a castle
    • Castle blog posts
    • Alphabetical list of castles
    • Castles divided by county
    • Photos of castles
    • Castles we've visited
  • History
    • Castles
    • Ancient history
      • barrows
      • brochs
      • cairns
      • caves
      • cists
      • crannogs
      • cursus monuments
      • forts
      • rock art
      • sacred sites
      • souterrains
      • standing stones
      • stone circles
    • Pictish history
      • Pictish stones
      • Pictish sites
      • Pictish placenames
    • Clans
      • Surnames
      • Trace your ancestors
      • Tartan
    • Trace your ancestors
  • Culture
    • Music
      • Bands & musicians
      • Music links
    • Film
    • Television
    • Placenames
      • Pictish placenames
  • Eat
  • Drink
    • Scottish beer
    • Scottish gin
    • Scottish vodka
  • Stay
  • Travel guide
    • City guides
    • Car hire
    • Airports
  • Walking
    • Munros
    • West Highland Way
  • Photos
  • Offers
  • Home
  • history
  • castles

Castle Rankine (site of)

Where is Castle Rankine?

Castle Rankine is in the parish of Denny and the county of Stirlingshire.

Grid reference: NS 78569 81875

Lat / long: 56.01436600, -3.94939910

Bing Maps | Google Maps | Historic maps (NLS) | OpenStreetMap | Ordnance Survey | PastMap | Streetmap | Wikimapia

OS Map for Castle Rankine

Campsie Fells (Kilsyth, Strathblane & Fintry)
OS Explorer map 348


Falkirk, Cumbernauld & Livingston (Linlithgow, Bathgate & Kilsyth)
OS Explorer map 349


Directions to Castle Rankine

Enter a starting point

  • 125x125 THISTLE

Weather at Castle Rankine

7°C
max 8°C / min 6°C
17km/h SW
1004mb
93%
92%
04:45 19:42

Light rain
Weather observed at Dunipace at 00:59

Alternative names for Castle Rankine

Castle Ranky; Castlerankine; Gertranky; Rankine Castle

References (books)

The Castles of ScotlandMartin Coventry
Prestongrange, 2015

References (websites)

Canmore

Castles near Castle Rankine

Herbertshire Castle (site of)

2.3km away

Castle Cary

4.3km away

Motte Of Seabegs

4.4km away

Dunipace motte

5.2km away

Dunipace Castle

5.2km away

Torwood Castle

5.6km away

Auchenbowie House

5.7km away

The Mote

5.9km away

Cumbernauld Castle (site of)

6.1km away

Historic sites near Castle Rankine

Pictish stones

  • Hawkhill Class III cross-slab (15.79 km)
  • Blackford Class I symbol stone (31.18 km)
  • Tullibole Class III cross slab (32.85 km)
  • Fowlis Wester Class II cross-slab (44.46 km)
  • Fowlis Wester Church Class III cross-slab (44.51 km)
  • Dupplin Cross Class III cross (45.54 km)
  • Princes Street Gardens Class I symbol stone (46.99 km)
  • Abernethy No. 3 Class III cross-slab (52.23 km)
  • Abernethy No. 4 Class III cross shaft (52.23 km)
  • Abernethy No. 5 Class III cross shaft (52.23 km)
more Pictish stones....

Ancient sites

  • Auchincloich (site of)broch (3.85 km)
  • Tappochbroch (5.69 km)
  • Bannockburn Westcursus (8.79 km)
  • Easter Mosssouterrain (10.14 km)
  • Shirva (site of)souterrain (11.22 km)
  • Leckiebroch and fort (15.26 km)
  • Dumyatfort (16.18 km)
  • St Serf's Churchstanding stones (18.46 km)
  • Coldochbroch (18.53 km)
  • Tantallen Hill (site of)souterrain (19.31 km)
more ancient sites....
  • http://www.onegreatfamily.com

Accommodation near Castle Rankine

Glenskirlie House & Castle
hotel, restaurant, barBanknock
2.8km away
The Carronbridge hotel
bed and breakfastDunipace
4.6km away
The Westerwood Hotel & Golf Resort
hotel, restaurant, barCumbernauld
5.4km away
Muirmailing Cottage
self-catering cottagePlean
5.5km away
Old Mill B&B
bed and breakfastCumbernauld
6.0km away
Premier Inn Falkirk (Larbert)
hotel, restaurant, barLarbert
7.1km away
The Red Lion Hotel
hotelLarbert
7.2km away
Premier Inn Glasgow (Cumbernauld)
hotel, restaurantCumbernauld
7.4km away
Premier Inn Stirling South (M9, J9)
hotel, restaurantStirling
7.7km away
The Coachman Hotel
hotelKilsyth
7.9km away

Accommodation search

(leave blank to view all)
Accommodation type
bed and breakfasts
campsites
castles
holiday parks
hostels
hotels
self-catering apartments
self-catering cottages
self-catering lodges
spas
more accommodation....

Cafés, restaurants & bars near Castle Rankine

Glenskirlie House & Castle
hotel, restaurant, barBanknock
2.8km away
The Westerwood Hotel & Golf Resort
hotel, restaurant, barCumbernauld
5.4km away
Premier Inn Falkirk (Larbert)
hotel, restaurant, barLarbert
7.1km away
Premier Inn Glasgow (Cumbernauld)
hotel, restaurantCumbernauld
7.4km away
Premier Inn Stirling South (M9, J9)
hotel, restaurantStirling
7.7km away
Premier Inn Falkirk Central
hotel, restaurantFalkirk
9.0km away
Best Western Park Hotel
hotel, restaurant, barFalkirk
9.6km away
Antonine Hotel
hotel, barFalkirk
10.5km away
Papa Joe's Stirling
restaurantStirling
11.4km away
Premier Inn Stirling City Centre
hotel, restaurantStirling
11.6km away
more food.... / more drink....

Related pages

Baby squirrels at Callendar House
Kilspindie Castle and Aberlady Bay nature reserve
Two castles and a country house in East Lothian
Two lesser-visited castles in Perthshire
Gullane beach, and castles on the way home
A pair of educational castles in Edinburgh
Published on the 24th of January 2012 at 9:08 pm. Updated on the 25th of January 2012 at 5:08 am.

Leave a comment

back to the top of the page

Connect with us

Like us on Facebook

Follow us on Twitter

Tweets by @Stravaig_Aboot

Follow us on Google+

Receive our newsletter

Quick links

Stay in a Scottish castle
Edinburgh Festival accommodation
Hotels in Scotland
Car hire in Scotland
Places to eat and drink in Scotland
Castles in Scotland
Trace your Scottish ancestors
Scottish clans
Standing stones in Scotland
The Picts
Pictish symbol stones
Pictish placenames
Scottish bands and musicians
Scottish films
Scottish TV shows
West Highland Way

About

Andy Sweet above Fast Castle

Stravaiging around Scotland is written, photographed and researched by Andy Sweet.
read more....

Cookies

To make this site work properly we use cookies to store information on your computer. Click here to read more.
© 2003 - 2018 Andy Sweet / Stravaiging around Scotland. Powered by WordPress. Hosted by Vidahost.