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Routes Scotland GlasgowCumbernauld
5 miles
Cumbernauld, Glasgow, Scotland
Cumbernauld, Glasgow, Scotland

5 miles

Length3.9 mi
Elev. Gain239.4 ft
Est. Steps9000
Trail
Created by Karyn

5 miles Introduction

5 miles is a 3.9 mile (9,000-step) route located near Cumbernauld, Glasgow, Scotland. This route has an elevation gain of about 239.4 ft and is rated as easy. Find the best walking trails near you in Pacer App.

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Cumbernauld

Place
Cumbernauld (; Scottish Gaelic: Comar nan Allt, lit. 'meeting of the streams') is a large town in the historic county of Dunbartonshire and council area of North Lanarkshire, Scotland. It is the tenth most-populous locality in Scotland and the most populated town in North Lanarkshire, positioned in the centre of Scotland's Central Belt.

Cumbernauld railway station

Building
Cumbernauld railway station serves the town of Cumbernauld in North Lanarkshire, Scotland. The station is managed by ScotRail and is located on the Cumbernauld Line, 14 miles (23 km) north east of Glasgow Queen Street (High Level) station and the Motherwell to Cumbernauld Line, 11+3⁄4 miles (18.9 km) north of Motherwell.

Cumbernauld Academy

School
Cumbernauld Academy (formerly Cumbernauld High School) is a comprehensive secondary school in Cumbernauld, Scotland. The original Cumbernauld High School was designed by Scottish architects Gratton & McLean and it opened in 1964 as a non-denominational, co-educational, secondary school. In 2013, North Lanarkshire Council announced the amalgamation of Cumbernauld High with Abronhill High to become Cumbernauld Academy in a new building to be built on existing CHS grounds.

Carbrain

Place
Carbrain /kar'bren/ is a neighbourhood in Cumbernauld, North Lanarkshire in Scotland. It gets a brief mention on William Roy's eighteenth century map of the Scottish Lowlands. In the nineteenth century it was no more than a farm steading. An early map shows just a few buildings existed in 1864. By the start of the First World War it had not grown significantly, although there was a school near the railway station.

Our Lady's High School, Cumbernauld

School
Our Lady's High School is a six-year Roman Catholic co-educational comprehensive school which opened in Ravenswood in 1968. It caters for pupils living in Cumbernauld, Muirhead, Cardowan and Stepps and in addition to pupils from Condorrat, Dullatur, Moodiesburn and Castlecary. The school's emblem is a post-modern artistic recreation of the Virgin and child.

Antonine Centre

Place
The Antonine Centre is a shopping centre in the Scottish New Town of Cumbernauld. The centre has 350,000 sq ft (33,000 m2) of retail space including a 100,000 sq ft (9,300 m2) Tesco Extra (in a separate building to the main centre, attached by walkways) and a 43,000 sq ft (4,000 m2) Dunnes which closed in 2018,This was replaced by a TJ Hughes in 2019 which was permanently closed in 2024.

Greenfaulds railway station

Building
Greenfaulds railway station serves the Greenfaulds area of the town of Cumbernauld in North Lanarkshire, Scotland. It is also within walking distance of the Lenziemill industrial estate, the Luggie Water and the Blairlinn industrial estate. The station is managed by ScotRail and is located 13+1⁄4 miles (21.3 km) north east of Glasgow Queen Street (High Level) on the Cumbernauld Line and is 11 miles (18 km) north of Motherwell railway station on the Motherwell to Cumbernauld Line.

Seafar

Place
Seafar is an area of the town of Cumbernauld. The original Seafar sand pit and farm were in the middle of what is now the A8011. Early in the new town's history Seafar was more distinct from Ravenswood and Muirhead than it now is possibly due to the building schedule and signage on paths. Recently Seafar is more dominant, perhaps because neither Ravenswood nor Muirhead appear on road signs.

Lenziemill

Place
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.

The Centre Cumbernauld

Place
The Centre Cumbernauld (formerly Cumbernauld town centre) is the commercial centre of the new town of Cumbernauld, Scotland. It was designed in the 1950s—as what became known as a megastructure—to be a town centre consisting of "one huge multi-storey building," according to its preliminary planning report, housing shops, apartments, a hotel, ice rink, police station and other amenities.

Comments

Karyn
2025/08/23
Karyn
2025/08/28
Last updated: Apr 1, 2026

Route Details

Length

3.9 mi

Elev. Gain

239.4 ft

Est. Steps

9000
Created by
Karyn
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