Douglas Water
Douglas Water is a hamlet in Lanarkshire, Scotland. Named after the Douglas Water, the river which flows through the hamlet, local mining operations provided employment to local people, and the hamlet was bolstered by the Coltness Iron and Coal Company establishing an operation nearby.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Iain Thompson, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Rigside and Carmichael.
Rigside
Village
Photo: Richard Webb, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Rigside is a small village in South Lanarkshire, Scotland, about 5 miles from the town of Lanark, and less than 1 mi from Douglas Water. It lies on the A70 road to Ayr, and has approximately 800 inhabitants.
Carmichael
Village
Photo: Callum Black, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Carmichael is a small village and civil parish between Biggar and Lanark in South Lanarkshire, Scotland. It is home to the Discover Carmichael Centre, with wax models depicting the history of the Carmichael family and of Scotland more widely. Carmichael is situated 3½ miles northeast of Douglas Water.
New Lanark
Photo: AlasdairW, CC BY-SA 3.0.
New Lanark is a complex of cotton mills and associated village in Clydesdale, South West Scotland, founded in 1786 to take advantage of water power from the fast-descending River Clyde.
Douglas Water
- Type: Village with 100 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
55.60718° or 55° 36′ 26″ northLongitude
-3.78946° or 3° 47′ 22″ westPopulation
100Elevation
620 feet (189 metres)Open location code
9C7RJ646+V6OpenStreetMap ID
node 240796794OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
6324531Wikidata ID
Q5302084
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Ukrainian—“Douglas Water” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Douglas Water”
- Dutch: “Douglas Water”
- French: “Douglas Water”
- Ukrainian: “Дуглас Вотер”
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Localities in the Area
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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 “Douglas Water”. Photo: Iain Thompson, CC BY-SA 2.0.