Braidwood
Braidwood is a small village near Carluke, in South Lanarkshire, Scotland. The medieval barony of Braidwood included the Tower of Hallbar. Braidwood House, former seat of Lord Clydesmuir, is one of the major local landmarks.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Jonathan Billinger, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- Type: Village with 600 residents
- Description: village in South Lanarkshire, Scotland, UK
- Also known as: “Braidwood, South Lanarkshire”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Lee Castle and Carluke railway station.
Lee Castle
Castle
Photo: John Preston Neale, Public domain.
Lee Castle, also known as The Lee, is a castellated mansion in Auchenglen, a branch of the Clyde Valley in South Lanarkshire, Scotland. It is located 1.5 kilometres south of Braidwood, and 4 kilometres north-west of Lanark.
Carluke railway station
Railway station
Photo: Ben Brooksbank, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Carluke railway station is a railway station on the West Coast Main Line that serves the town of Carluke, South Lanarkshire, Scotland. The station is managed by ScotRail and is predominantly served by Argyle Line commuter trains running between Lanark and Glasgow Central.
Tower of Hallbar
Residential building
Photo: Supergolden, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Tower of Hallbar, also known as Hallbar Tower and Braidwood Castle, is a 16th-century tower house, located to the west of the River Clyde in South Lanarkshire, Scotland.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Carluke and Cartland.
Carluke
Photo: G Laird, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Carluke is a town five miles north of Lanark with a population in 2020 of 13,810. Carluke is mostly a commuter town for the Glasgow-Motherwell industrial corridor.
Cartland
Village
Cartland is a village in South Lanarkshire, Scotland. Cartland is situated 1½ miles southeast of Braidwood.
Crossford
Village
Photo: David Hamilton, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Crossford is a village in South Lanarkshire, Scotland. Crossford lies on the A72, alongside the River Clyde and the River Nethan, 4.5 miles north west of Lanark and 9 miles south east of Hamilton. Crossford is situated 1½ miles southwest of Braidwood.
Braidwood
- Category: locality
- Location: South Lanarkshire, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
55.71245° or 55° 42′ 45″ northLongitude
-3.83321° or 3° 49′ 60″ westPopulation
600Elevation
594 feet (181 metres)Open location code
9C7RP568+XPOpenStreetMap ID
node 1854300323OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
2654941Wikidata ID
Q4955667
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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 “Braidwood”. Photo: Jonathan Billinger, CC BY-SA 2.0.