Douglas Water is a hamlet in Lanarkshire, Scotland. Named after the Douglas Water, the river which flows through the hamlet, local mining operations provided employment to local people, and the hamlet was bolstered by the Coltness Iron and Coal Company establishing an operation nearby.

Rigside

Village

Photo: Richard Webb, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Rigside is a small village in South Lanarkshire, Scotland, about 5 miles from the town of Lanark, and less than 1 mi from Douglas Water. It lies on the A70 road to Ayr, and has approximately 800 inhabitants. Rigside is situated 2 miles south of Redshead.

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.

Redshead

Type: Hamlet
Category: locality
Location: Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude

55.62363° or 55° 37′ 25″ north

Longitude

-3.78518° or 3° 47′ 7″ west

Open location code

9C7RJ6F7+FW

OpenStreetMap ID

node 1641887902

OpenStreetMap feature

place=hamlet

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