Clydesdale
Clydesdale is a region in the southwest of Scotland. It encompasses the catchment and upper course of the River Clyde, and roughly corresponds to four of the local government districts of South Lanarkshire, which in 2019 had a combined population of about 62,000.Photo: AlasdairW, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Essential Destinations
Top destinations include New Lanark and Lanark.
New Lanark
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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.
Lanark
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Lanark is a market town in Clydesdale, 28 miles southeast of Glasgow. Historically it was the county town of Lanarkshire, but that is nowadays Hamilton.
Carluke
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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.
Destinations to Discover
Explore places such as Biggar and Lesmahagow.
Biggar
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Biggar is a market town historically in Lanarkshire and now within Clydesdale. It's nowadays a commuter town for both Edinburgh and Glasgow, and in 2020 had a population of 2640. Its attractions are a rare combination: a gasworks museum and a puppet theatre.
Lesmahagow
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Lesmahagow is a small town in Clydesdale just off M74, with a population of 4300 in 2020. The town name means "the enclosure of St Machutus" though only the Priory foundations remain.
Carstairs
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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.
Abington
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Abington is a small village in Clydesdale in southwest Scotland. It's about the first settlement you reach after crossing Beattock Summit on M74 towards Glasgow, prominently signposted for its service station and turn-off for Edinburgh.
Clydesdale
- Type: Valley
- Description: Scottish local government district (1975-1996), part of Strathclyde region
- Also known as: “Vale of Clyde”
- Category: Scottish district
- Location: South West, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Urdu—“Clydesdale” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “كلايديزدال”
- Bengali: “ক্লাইডেসডেল”
- Catalan: “Clydesdale”
- Cebuano: “Clydesdale (walog)”
- Cebuano: “Clydesdale”
- Chinese: “克莱兹代尔”
- Chinese: “克莱德斯戴尔”
- Chinese: “克萊德斯戴爾”
- Chinese: “克萊茲代爾”
- Dutch: “Clydesdale”
- Esperanto: “Clydesdale”
- French: “Clydesdale”
- German: “Clydesdale”
- Gujarati: “ક્લાઇડ્સડેલ”
- Irish: “Dail Chluaidh”
- Italian: “Clydesdale”
- Japanese: “クライズデール”
- Japanese: “クライズデール地方”
- Kannada: “ಕ್ಲೈಡೆಸ್ಡೇಲ್”
- Korean: “클라이드데일”
- Lithuanian: “Klaidesdeilas”
- Portuguese: “Clydesdale”
- Russian: “Клайдсдейл”
- Slovenian: “Clydesdale”
- Spanish: “Clydesdale”
- Swedish: “Clydesdale (dal)”
- Swedish: “Clydesdale”
- Tamil: “லீசெஸ்டர் போரெஸ்ட் கிழக்கு”
- Telugu: “క్లీడెస్డేల్”
- Urdu: “کلیدیسدالی”
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