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Carstairs

Carstairs is a village in , 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.
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Carstairs railway station and State Hospital.

Railway station
Photo: Rosser1954, CC BY-SA 4.0.
serves the village of Carstairs in , and is a major junction station on the West Coast Main Line, situated close to the point at which the lines from and to merge.

Hospital
Photo: Alan Stewart, CC BY-SA 2.0.
The is a psychiatric hospital located close to the villages of Carstairs and , in , Scotland. It provides care and treatment in conditions of high security for patients from Scotland and Northern Ireland.

is a freight handling facility near in Scotland.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Carstairs Junction and Ravenstruther.

Village
Photo: Alan Stewart, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is a village in . Taking its name from the village of Carstairs and nearby railway junction, the village grew around the railway station which opened in 1848.

Village
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is a small hamlet in , , near the town of . In 1517 the lands of Carstairs and were granted to William Sommerville.

Village
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is a moorland village on the southern edge of the of , Scotland. The village lies about 30 mi south of both and . It is bounded by the North Medwyn and South Medwyn watercourses. is situated 2½ miles east of Carstairs.

Carstairs

Latitude
55.6959° or 55° 41′ 45″ north
Longitude
-3.6909° or 3° 41′ 27″ west
Population
914
Elevation
686 feet (209 metres)
Open location code
9C7RM8W5+9J
Open­Street­Map ID
node 322700943
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­village
Geo­Names ID
2653639
Wiki­data ID
Q1009254
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In Other Languages

From Basque to Welsh—“Carstairs” goes by many names.
  • Basque: “Carstairs”
  • Cebuano: “Carstairs”
  • Dutch: “Carstairs”
  • French: “Carstairs”
  • German: “Carstairs”
  • Irish: “Caisteal Tarrais”
  • Japanese: “カーステアーズ”
  • Kurdish: “Carstairs”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Carstairs”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Carstairs”
  • Norwegian: “Carstairs”
  • Persian: “کارستیرز”
  • Portuguese: “Carstairs”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Caisteal Tarrais”
  • Slovenian: “Carstairs”
  • Spanish: “Carstairs”
  • Swedish: “Carstairs, Skottland”
  • Swedish: “Carstairs”
  • Welsh: “Caisteal Tarrais”
  • Welsh: “Carstairs”

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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 Wikivoyage page “Carstairs”. Photo: Adam Black GB, CC BY-SA 4.0.