Carstairs Junction
Carstairs Junction is a village in South Lanarkshire. Taking its name from the village of Carstairs and nearby railway junction, the village grew around the railway station which opened in 1848.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Alan Stewart, CC BY-SA 2.0.
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Places of Interest
Highlights include Carstairs railway station and State Hospital.
Carstairs railway station
Railway station
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Carstairs railway station serves the village of Carstairs in South Lanarkshire, Scotland and is a major junction station on the West Coast Main Line, situated close to the point at which the lines from London Euston and Edinburgh to Glasgow Central merge.
State Hospital
Hospital
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The State Hospital is a psychiatric hospital located close to the villages of Carstairs and Carstairs Junction, in South Lanarkshire, Scotland. It provides care and treatment in conditions of high security for patients from Scotland and Northern Ireland.
Carstairs House
Building
Photo: Greg Morss, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Carstairs House, also known as Monteith House, is a country house 1.5 kilometres south-west of Carstairs, South Lanarkshire, Scotland. The house is protected as a category A listed building.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Carstairs and Pettinain.
Carstairs
Photo: Adam Black GB, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Carstairs is a village in Clydesdale, one of string of villages north bank of the upper River Clyde. Carstairs Junction grew up later when the railway arrived, while Carnwath is an old market town, population 1360.
Pettinain
Village
Pettinain is a hamlet and civil parish in South Lanarkshire, Scotland, 7 miles east of Lanark. Bartholomew's Gazetteer of the British Isles described Pettinain in 1887 as "par. and vil, Lanarkshire, on river Clyde - par, 3900 ac, pop.
Carnwath
Village
Photo: Kim Traynor, CC BY 3.0.
Carnwath is a moorland village on the southern edge of the Pentland Hills of South Lanarkshire, Scotland. The village lies about 30 mi south of both Edinburgh and Glasgow. It is bounded by the North Medwyn and South Medwyn watercourses. Carnwath is situated 1½ miles northeast of Carstairs Junction.
Carstairs Junction
- Type: Village with 747 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
55.68904° or 55° 41′ 21″ northLongitude
-3.66455° or 3° 39′ 52″ westPopulation
747Elevation
650 feet (198 metres)Open location code
9C7RM8QP+J5OpenStreetMap ID
node 322701190OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
11592125Wikidata ID
Q50607256
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From Dutch to Welsh—“Carstairs Junction” goes by many names.
- Dutch: “Carstairs Junction”
- Spanish: “Carstairs Junction”
- Swedish: “Carstairs Junction”
- Welsh: “Carstairs Junction”
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