📌 Town in Argyll & Bute
★★
Bordering the north bank of the Firth of Clyde, Helensburgh is an attractive seaside resort with a small but busy centre and beautiful cherry blossom-lined suburban streets in springtime. The town grew up as a wealthy commuter base for dirty Glasgow in Victorian times, and still has good transport links to Scotland’s largest city – though it’s recently lost the ferry service to Gourock across the Clyde, leaving behind a conspicuously empty pier. Away from the coast at the top of town, Hill House is something of a pilgrimage site for fans of Glasgow designer Charles Rennie Mackintosh.
🌍 Location
📌 Argyll & Bute
🧭 O.S. Grid Reference: NS 297824
🛰️ GPS coordinates: 56.003922,-4.733374
🚶 Hill House is quite a long uphill walk from the grid-plan town centre.
🚆🚌 Helensburgh isn’t on the usual tourist trail, but it’s very accessible. Trains call from Glasgow, and there’s a second station on the West Highland line from Oban and Fort William. There are also local buses.
Explore nearby
<1 mi away
>> Hill House ★★★
<3 mi away
>> Walk: Balloch to Craigendoran – Ben Bowie on the bounce ★★★ (1 mi →)
>> Glenarn ★★★ (2 mi ←)
>> Walk: Ardmore Point’s birds & bays ★★★ (3 mi ↓)
