Thankerton
Thankerton is a small village in South Lanarkshire, Scotland, United Kingdom. It is located between Biggar and Lanark, and situated between Quothquan Law and Tinto.Photo: Callum Black, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Photo: Thomas Nugent, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Covington Parish Church.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Covington and Quothquan.
Covington
Locality
Covington is a village and civil parish in South Lanarkshire, Scotland. It lies in Clydesdale, four miles west of Biggar and about 40 miles from both Edinburgh and Glasgow.
Quothquan
Village
Photo: Jonathan Oldenbuck, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Quothquan is a village in Libberton parish, South Lanarkshire, Scotland. It is 3+1⁄4 miles northwest of Biggar, and 7+1⁄2 miles southeast of Lanark. To the southwest is the 1,098-foot-high hill Quothquan Law, topped by the remains of a hill fort. Quothquan is situated 2 miles northeast of Thankerton.
Symington
Village
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Symington is a small village in South Lanarkshire, Scotland, 3 miles southwest of Biggar, 10 miles east of Douglas and 13 miles southeast of Carluke. Geographical features near Symington include Tinto Hill, the Coulter Hills and the River Clyde. Symington is situated 2 miles southeast of Thankerton.
Thankerton
- Type: Village with 521 residents
- Description: village in South Lanarkshire, Scotland, UK
- Category: locality
- Location: South Lanarkshire, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
55.6249° or 55° 37′ 30″ northLongitude
-3.6328° or 3° 37′ 58″ westPopulation
521Elevation
679 feet (207 metres)Open location code
9C7RJ9F8+XVOpenStreetMap ID
node 227160651OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
2636055Wikidata ID
Q7710526
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Swedish—“Thankerton” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Thankerton”
- Dutch: “Thankerton”
- French: “Thankerton”
- German: “Thankerton”
- Spanish: “Thankerton”
- Swedish: “Thankerton”
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