Directions for Sykeside


By Chris MacMillan
October 31 2006

Rawyards Park/ Airdrie Sports Center

Coming from the East:

Follow the M8 until you come to the new house roundabout

M8 Junction 6 sign posted Lanark, Motherwell and Airdrie

Take the third exit A73 Airdrie

Follow this road passed the turn off for the stadium and when you come to a round about with a BP garage on you right go straight through again.

200 meters on the left hand side you will see parks with football pitches on them turn left and your there.

Coming from the west:

Follow the M8 until you come to the new house roundabout

M8 Junction 6 sign posted Lanark, Motherwell and Airdrie

Take the First exit A73 Airdrie

Follow this road passed the turn off for the stadium and when you come to a round about with a BP garage on you right go straight through again.

200 meters on the left hand side you will see parks with football pitches on them turn left and your there.

Coming From the North

When you get to the Cumbernauld round about head south on the A73 heading for Airdrie.

Pass straight through the next two round abouts, you will pass the football parks on the right hand side. Turn rght and the sports center will be in front of you.

Directions for Sykeside ash parks

On the M8 Eastbound, you pass the Showcase Cinema at Coatbridge. The next cutoff after this is the one signposted for East Kilbride, Carlisle, Strathclyde Park. DO NOT TAKE THIS. Shortly after this, you go past Shanks and McEwan on the LHS. Take the cut off to left straight after it heading for CARNBROE. Be carefeul not to miss it as it is straight after Shanks and McEwan. Follow the road until you come to a roundabout - go straight through it. Go straight through the next mini-roundabout (should be a school on your LHS). Follow the road until you come to a chapel on the RHS - the dressing rooms are to the right just after it.

Direction from Edinburgh

On the M8 heading west towards Glasgow..... Go past :- Junction 6; the next cut off for Newhouse, Holytown etc; and the next cut off for Chungwa and Eurocentral. The next cut off is for the A725 - Do not take the first slip road which will have you heading for East Kilbride, Carlisle, Strathclyde Park etc - go under the bridge and take the next one heading for Coatbridge. Once on the A725, drive over the M8, and then come back onto it heading East. Once back on the M8 heading East, take the first cut off signposted for CARNBROE (be careful not to go into the Shanks and McEwan factory which is immediately before it.). Carry straight on this road, go straight through the first roundabout, and also the next mini roundabout (should be a school on your LHS). Shortly after the mini roundabout, you will pass a chapel on the RHS. The changing rooms are immediately after this also on the RHS.

Directions For Espiside Coatbridge

Coming from the North

1.

Start at Gemini Crescent, Dundee (UK-DD2 1).

 

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After 72 yards take the 1st Exit off the roundabout onto Apollo Way.

 

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Continue straight into A85 (Riverside Avenue).

 

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After 563 yards take the 1st Exit off the roundabout into A90.

 

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You just left Dundee.

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Continue straight into A90.

 

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Leave the A90, and join the M90 at the M90/J11 junction.

 

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After 4.4 miles take the 1st Exit off the roundabout into A9.

 

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Continue straight into A9.

 

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After 3.2 miles at M9/J11 take the 3rd Exit off the roundabout into M9 direction EDINBURGH, STIRLING, [M9] GLASGOW, GLASGOW via [M80].

 

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Leave the M9, and join the M80 at the M9/J9 junction direction CARLISLE, [M80] GLASGOW.

 

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Leave the M80 at junction M80/J4 and straight ahead into A80.

 

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Continue straight into A80.

 

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Turn right into A752 (Cumbernauld Road).

 

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Continue straight into A752.

 

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Turn left onto Townhead Road.

 

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You are entering Coatbridge.

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Continue straight onto Townhead Road.

 

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Turn right onto Mosspark Road.

 

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You have arrived your destination "Mosspark Road, Coatbridge (UK-ML5 2)".

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Coming from Livingston Join the M8/A8 as though heading to Glasgow

Leave the M8 at junction M8/J6 and straight ahead into A8.

3.2 miles
5.1 km

18.3 miles
29.4 km

Continue straight into A8 (Glasgow And Edinburgh Road).

2 miles
3.3 km

21.5 miles
34.5 km

Bear left into A752 (Aitkenhead Road) direction GARTCOSH, [A752] UDDINGSTON. Just after the Showcase cinema (it will be on the right hand side)

700 yards
640 m

23.5 miles
37.8 km

At the bottom of the slip road  turn right Continue straight into A752 (Langmuir Road). Continue straight through at the next two roundabouts.

1.9 miles
3 km

23.9 miles
38.5 km

Turn right onto Townhead Road.

0.7 miles
1.1 km

25.8 miles
41.5 km

Continue straight along Townhead Road., passed the golf range.

0.5 miles
856 m

26.5 miles
42.6 km

You will see the football parks on the right  hand side.Turn right onto Mosspark Road.

107 yards
98 m

27 miles
43.5 km

You have arrived your destination "Mosspark Road, Coatbridge (UK-ML5 2)".

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27.1 miles
43.6 km