Travel Reference
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Information
Stirling Community Hospital
(
01786-434000; Livilands Rd)
South of the town centre.
Stirling Information Centre
(
01786-475019;
www.visitscottishheartlands.com
; St John St;
10am-5pm;
)
At the entrance to the Old Town Jail below the castle.
Getting There & Away
Bus
The
bus station
(
01786-446474)
is on Goosecroft Rd.
Citylink
(
0871 266 33 33;
www.citylink.co.uk
)
offers a number of services to/from Stirling:
Edinburgh
£7.50, one hour, hourly
Glasgow
£7, 40 minutes, hourly
Some buses continue to Aberdeen, Inverness and Fort William; more frequently a change
will be required.
Train
the following:
Edinburgh
£7.70, 55 minutes, twice hourly Monday to Saturday, hourly Sunday
Glasgow
£8, 40 minutes, twice hourly Monday to Saturday, hourly Sunday
Detour:
Scone Palace
'So thanks to all at once and to each one, whom we invite to see us crowned at Scone.' This line from
Macbeth
in-
dicates the importance of this place (pronounced 'skoon'), 2 miles north of Perth.
Scone Palace
(
www.scone-
palace.co.uk
; adult/child/family £10/7/30; 9.30am-5pm Apr-Oct, closes 4.30pm Sat)
itself was built in
1580 on the site where, in 838, Kenneth MacAlpin became the first king of a united Scotland and brought the Stone
of Destiny (
Click here
)
, on which Scottish kings were ceremonially invested, to Moot Hill. In 1296 Edward I of
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