Lanark
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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: R Pollack, Public domain.
Photo: AlasdairW, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Lanark Memorial Hall and Lanark railway station.
Lanark Memorial Hall
Town hall
Photo: Adam Black, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Lanark Memorial Hall is a town hall.
Lanark railway station
Railway station
Photo: AndrewR232, CC BY 3.0.
Lanark railway station, managed by ScotRail, is the southern terminus of the Argyle Line on Bannatyne Street, Lanark, South Lanarkshire, Scotland. The station is staffed part-time.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include New Lanark and Kirkfieldbank.
New Lanark
Photo: AlasdairW, CC BY-SA 3.0.
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.
Kirkfieldbank
Village
Photo: Richard Webb, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Kirkfieldbank is a small village and parish in Scotland, on the banks of the River Clyde. It is close to the town of Lanark and is part of the current South Lanarkshire local authority.
Lanark
- Type: Town with 8,860 residents
- Description: town in South Lanarkshire, Scotland, UK
- Categories: small burgh and locality
- Location: South Lanarkshire, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
55.6736° or 55° 40′ 25″ northLongitude
-3.778° or 3° 46′ 41″ westPopulation
8,860Elevation
653 feet (199 metres)Open location code
9C7RM6FC+FQOpenStreetMap ID
node 322700657OpenStreetMap feature
place=townGeoNames ID
2644976Wikidata ID
Q1002124
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Welsh—“Lanark” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “لانارك”
- Asturian: “Lanark”
- Basque: “Lanark”
- Catalan: “Lanark”
- Cebuano: “Lanark”
- Chinese: “拉奈克”
- Chinese: “拉纳克”
- Czech: “Lanark”
- Dutch: “Lanark”
- Egyptian Arabic: “لانارك”
- Esperanto: “Lanark”
- Finnish: “Lanark”
- French: “Lanark”
- German: “Lanark”
- Hebrew: “לאנארק”
- Irish: “Lanark”
- Irish: “Lannraig”
- Italian: “Lanark”
- Japanese: “ラナーク”
- Korean: “래너크”
- Persian: “لنارک”
- Polish: “Lanark”
- Portuguese: “Lanark”
- Russian: “Ланарк”
- Scots: “Lanark”
- Scots: “Lanrick”
- Scots: “Lanrik”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Lannraig, Lannraig a Deas”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Lannraig”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Lanark”
- Silesian: “Lanark”
- Slovak: “Lanark”
- South Azerbaijani: “لنارک”
- Spanish: “Lanark”
- Swedish: “Lanark”
- Turkish: “Lanark”
- Ukrainian: “Ланарк”
- Welsh: “Lanark”
- “Lanark”
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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 “Lanark”. Photo: AlasdairW, CC BY-SA 3.0.