Hamilton
Hamilton is a town on Clydeside in central Scotland. With a population of 55,000 in 2022, it's the fourth-largest town in Scotland and lies 12 miles southeast of Glasgow, at the confluence of the River Clyde with the Avon Water.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Town with 53,100 residents
- Description: town in South Lanarkshire, Scotland, UK
- Also known as: “Cadȝow”, “Cadzow”, “Hamaltan”, “Hamilton (Scotland)”, “Hamilton, Lanarkshire”, “Hamilton, Scotland”, “Hamilton, South Lanarkshire”, and “Hamiltoun”
Places of Interest
Highlights include New Douglas Park and Hamilton Central railway station.
New Douglas Park
Stadium
Photo: Alasdair Middleton, CC BY 2.0.
New Douglas Park, also known as The Hamilton Community Stadium for sponsorship reasons, is a football stadium in Hamilton, South Lanarkshire, Scotland, which serves as the home of Scottish League Two side Clyde, also formerly being home to Scottish League One side Hamilton Academical.
Hamilton Central railway station
Railway station
Photo: Nigel Thompson, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Hamilton Central railway station serves Hamilton, South Lanarkshire in Scotland, lying on the Argyle Line. It is situated in the town centre, adjacent to the Hamilton bus station, as well as the Regent Shopping Centre, Hamilton's main shopping location.
Hamilton Sheriff Court
Courthouse
Photo: Elliott Simpson, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Hamilton Sheriff Court is a judicial building in Almada Street, Hamilton, South Lanarkshire, Scotland. The building, which continues to serve as the local courthouse, is a Category A listed building.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Motherwell and Meikle Earnock.
Motherwell
Photo: Jonathan Oldenbuck, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Motherwell is an industrial town in the Clydeside region of central Scotland, with a population of 32,840 in 2020. It's 16 miles southeast of Glasgow, and divided by the motorway and River Clyde from neighbouring Hamilton.
Meikle Earnock
Suburb
Hamilton is a large town in South Lanarkshire, Scotland. It serves as the main administrative centre of the South Lanarkshire council area. It sits 10 miles south-east of Glasgow, 37 miles south-west of Edinburgh and 74 miles north of Carlisle.
Bothwell
Town
Photo: Otter, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Bothwell is a conservation village in the South Lanarkshire council area of Scotland and part of the Greater Glasgow area. It lies on the north bank of the River Clyde, adjacent to Uddingston and Hamilton, 9 miles east-south-east of Glasgow city centre. Bothwell is situated 2½ miles northwest of Hamilton.
Hamilton
- Categories: large burgh and locality
- Location: South Lanarkshire, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
55.7759° or 55° 46′ 33″ northLongitude
-4.0334° or 4° 2′ 0″ westPopulation
53,100Elevation
223 feet (68 metres)United Nations Location Code
GB HMTOpen location code
9C7QQXG8+9JOpenStreetMap ID
node 3149662894OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Western Panjabi—“Hamilton” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Hamilton, Suid-Lanarkshire”
- Arabic: “هميلتون”
- Armenian: “Համիլթոն”
- Asturian: “Hamilton”
- Azerbaijani: “Hamilton”
- Azerbaijani: “Həmilton”
- Basque: “Hamilton”
- Belarusian: “Гамільтан”
- Bengali: “হ্যামিল্টন”
- Breton: “Hamaltan”
- Bulgarian: “Хамилтън”
- Catalan: “Hamilton”
- Cebuano: “Hamilton”
- Chinese: “咸美頓”
- Chinese: “汉密尔顿”
- Chinese: “漢密爾頓”
- Chinese: “漢米爾頓”
- Czech: “Hamilton”
- Danish: “Hamilton”
- Dutch: “Hamilton”
- Egyptian Arabic: “هاميلتون (ساوث لاناركشاير)”
- Egyptian Arabic: “هاميلتون”
- Finnish: “Hamilton”
- French: “Hamilton”
- German: “Hamaltan”
- German: “Hamilton”
- Greek: “Κάντιου”
- Greek: “Κάτζου”
- Greek: “Χάμιλτον Σκωτίας”
- Greek: “Χάμιλτον”
- Gujarati: “હેમિલ્ટન”
- Hebrew: “המילטון”
- Icelandic: “Hamilton”
- Irish: “Baile Hamaltan”
- Irish: “Hamaltan”
- Italian: “Hamilton”
- Japanese: “ハミルトン”
- Kannada: “ಹ್ಯಾಮಿಲ್ಟನ್”
- Korean: “해밀턴”
- Lithuanian: “Hamiltonas”
- Nepali: “ह्यामिल्टन”
- Northern Frisian: “Hamilton”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Hamilton (Skottland)”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Hamilton”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Hamilton i Skottland”
- Norwegian: “Hamilton”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Hamilton”
- Persian: “همیلتون (اسکاتلند)”
- Persian: “همیلتون”
- Polish: “Hamilton”
- Portuguese: “Hamilton”
- Russian: “Гамильтон”
- Scots: “Haimiltoun”
- Scots: “Hamaltan”
- Scots: “Hamilton”
- Scots: “Hamiltoun”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Baile Hamaltan”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Hamalton”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Hamilton”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Hamilton, Škotska”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Hamilton”
- Silesian: “Hamilton”
- Slovak: “Hamilton”
- Slovenian: “Hamilton”
- South Azerbaijani: “همیلتون”
- Spanish: “Cadzow”
- Spanish: “Hamilton”
- Swedish: “Hamilton, South Lanarkshire”
- Swedish: “Hamilton”
- Tamil: “ஹாமில்டன்”
- Tatar: “Һәмилтон (Шотландия)”
- Tatar: “Һәмилтон”
- Telugu: “హామిల్టన్”
- Ukrainian: “Гамільтон”
- Urdu: “ہمیلٹن”
- Urdu: “ہیملٹن، جنوبی لینکاشائر”
- Welsh: “Hamaltan”
- Welsh: “Hamilton, De Swydd Lanark”
- Welsh: “Hamilton”
- Western Panjabi: “ہملٹن”
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