Yieldshields
Yieldshields is a small village in South Lanarkshire, located close to the town of Carluke. A large wind farm was installed at the north end of Thorn road at the Kingshill plantation. In 2024 several new houses were under construction in the village.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: paul birrell, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Carluke railway station and High Mill, Chapel Street, Carluke.
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. Carluke railway station is situated 2 miles west of Yieldshields.
High Mill, Chapel Street, Carluke
Ruins
Photo: Jim Ness, CC BY-SA 2.0.
High Mill, Chapel Street, Carluke is a ruins.
Carluke High School
School building
Carluke High School is a secondary school in Carluke, South Lanarkshire, Scotland. As of 2019 its head teacher is Steve Duffy. As of 2007 it had 1,226 students.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Kilncadzow and Carluke.
Kilncadzow
Village
Photo: M J Richardson, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Kilncadzow is a small village in rural Lanarkshire, Scotland. It lies two miles southeast of Carluke and three miles north of Lanark on the A721 road, part of the old road from Glasgow to Peebles.
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.
Braidwood
Village
Photo: Jonathan Billinger, CC BY-SA 2.0.
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. Braidwood is situated 2 miles southwest of Yieldshields.
Yieldshields
- 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
55.73599° or 55° 44′ 10″ northLongitude
-3.79606° or 3° 47′ 46″ westElevation
873 feet (266 metres)Open location code
9C7RP6P3+9HOpenStreetMap ID
node 365930370OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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In Other Languages
From Basque to French—“Yieldshields” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Yieldshields”
- Dutch: “Yieldshields”
- French: “Yieldshields”
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