Auchenheath
Auchenheath is a small village in South Lanarkshire, Scotland. It is on the River Nethan and is located near Blackwood, Kirkmuirhill, and Lanark. Auchenheath House is a category B listed Italianate house.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Ben Brooksbank, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Craignethan Castle and Black Hill.
Craignethan Castle
Castle
Photo: Hugh Miller, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Craignethan Castle is a ruined castle in South Lanarkshire, Scotland. It is located above the River Nethan, a tributary of the River Clyde, at NS816464. Craignethan Castle is situated 1½ miles north of Auchenheath.
Black Hill
Peak
The Black Hill in South Lanarkshire is owned by the National Trust for Scotland. It overlooks the Clyde Valley, and is the location of a burial cairn from the Bronze Age and an Iron Age fortress.
Lesmahagow Old Parish Church
Church
Lesmahagow Old Parish Church is situated 2½ miles south of Auchenheath.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Kirkmuirhill and Blackwood.
Kirkmuirhill
Town
Kirkmuirhill is a village in South Lanarkshire, Scotland. It borders Blackwood, near Lanark and is sited near Junction 9 of the M74 motorway.
Blackwood
Village
Blackwood is a village which borders Kirkmuirhill, near Lanark in the central belt of Scotland. It has a few small shops, a Roman Catholic church and a couple of primary schools.
Tillietudlem
Hamlet
Photo: Dave souza, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Tillietudlem is a fictional castle in Walter Scott's 1816 novel Old Mortality, and a modern settlement in South Lanarkshire, Scotland. Interest in Scott's novel attracted visitors to its supposed inspiration, Craignethan Castle, and a railway station built nearby was named after the fictional attraction.
Auchenheath
- Type: Village
- Description: village in South Lanarkshire, Scotland, UK
- Category: locality
- Location: South Lanarkshire, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
55.67178° or 55° 40′ 18″ northLongitude
-3.89514° or 3° 53′ 43″ westElevation
548 feet (167 metres)Open location code
9C7RM4C3+PWOpenStreetMap ID
node 475339306OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Norwegian Nynorsk—“Auchenheath” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Auchenheath”
- Dutch: “Auchenheath”
- French: “Auchenheath”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Auchenheath”
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Auchenheath Village Hall and Kirkmuirhill Parish Church.
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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 “Auchenheath”. Photo: Ben Brooksbank, CC BY-SA 2.0.