Cleland
Cleland is a village near Motherwell and Wishaw in North Lanarkshire, Scotland. As of 2018, it has a population of about 3,000. The village has a strong coal mining heritage, and is a typical example of a working class village in North Lanarkshire and the Glasgow area.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Village with 3,000 residents
- Description: village in North Lanarkshire, Scotland, UK
- Also known as: “Cleland, North Lanarkshire”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Cleland railway station and Carfin railway station.
Cleland railway station
Railway station
Photo: Rosser1954, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Cleland railway station is a railway station serving the village of Cleland, near Motherwell in North Lanarkshire, Scotland. Built on the Cleland and Midcalder Line it was originally named 'Omoa', after the nearby ironworks, until Cleland on the Wishaw and Coltness Railway closed in 1930.
Carfin railway station
Railway station
Photo: Nigel Thompson, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Carfin railway station is a railway station serving both Carfin and Newarthill in North Lanarkshire, Scotland. It is 14 miles southeast of Glasgow Central railway station on the Shotts Line between Glasgow and Edinburgh. Carfin railway station is situated 1½ miles west of Cleland.
University Hospital Wishaw
Hospital
Photo: Elliott Simpson, CC BY-SA 2.0.
University Hospital Wishaw is a district general hospital in Wishaw, North Lanarkshire, situated between the areas of Craigneuk to the north and Netherton to the south. The hospital, managed by NHS Lanarkshire, is 11 miles southeast of Glasgow. University Hospital Wishaw is situated 2 miles southwest of Cleland.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Newarthill and Carfin.
Newarthill
Town
Photo: G Laird, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Newarthill is a village in North Lanarkshire, Scotland, situated roughly three miles north-east of the town of Motherwell. It has a population of around 6,200.
Carfin
Village
Photo: Richard Webb, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Carfin is a village in North Lanarkshire in the central lowlands of Scotland, situated to the north-east of Motherwell. Most local amenities are shared with the adjacent villages of Holytown, Newarthill and New Stevenston which have a combined population of around 20,000 across the four localities. Carfin is situated 2 miles west of Cleland.
Wishaw
Town
Photo: Iain Thompson, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Wishaw is a large town in North Lanarkshire, Scotland, on the edge of the Clyde Valley, 15 miles south-east of Glasgow city centre. The town is part of the Motherwell and Wishaw constituency. Wishaw is situated 2 miles south of Cleland.
Cleland
- Category: locality
- Location: North Lanarkshire, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
55.80171° or 55° 48′ 6″ northLongitude
-3.9156° or 3° 54′ 56″ westPopulation
3,000Elevation
489 feet (149 metres)United Nations Location Code
GB CEAOpen location code
9C7RR32M+MQOpenStreetMap ID
node 706254649OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Welsh—“Cleland” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “كليلاند”
- Basque: “Cleland”
- Cebuano: “Cleland”
- Dutch: “Cleland”
- Egyptian Arabic: “كليلاند”
- French: “Cleland”
- German: “Cleland”
- Irish: “Cleland (Siorrachd Lannraig a Tuath)Cleland”
- Irish: “Cleland”
- Japanese: “クリーランド”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Cleland”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Cleland”
- Norwegian: “Cleland”
- Spanish: “Cleland (North Lanarkshire)”
- Spanish: “Cleland”
- Swedish: “Cleland”
- Welsh: “Cleland”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Cleland”. Photo: Ian Paterson, CC BY-SA 2.0.