Lanarkshire

Lanarkshire, also called the County of Lanark, is a historic county, lieutenancy area and registration county in the Central Lowlands and of .
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Douglas Castle and St Bride’s Chapel.

Castle
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was a stronghold of the Douglas family from medieval times to the 20th century. The first castle, erected in the 13th century, was destroyed and replaced several times until the 18th century when a large mansion house was built in its place.

Church
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is a church.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Abington and Lesmahagow.

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is a small village in 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.

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is a small town in 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.

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is a complex of cotton mills and associated village in , , founded in 1786 to take advantage of water power from the fast-descending River Clyde.

Lanarkshire

Latitude
55.5753° or 55° 34′ 31″ north
Longitude
-3.8333° or 3° 50′ west
Population
1,000,000
Open location code
9C7RH5G8+4M
Open­Street­Map ID
node 302323875
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­county
Wiki­data ID
Q530296
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Welsh—“Lanarkshire” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “أناركشاير”
  • Arabic: “لاناركشاير”
  • Armenian: “Լարնակշիր”
  • Belarusian: “Ланаркшыр”
  • Breton: “Siorrachd Lannraig”
  • Bulgarian: “Ланаркшире”
  • Catalan: “Lanarkshire”
  • Catalan: “Siorrachd Lannraig”
  • Cebuano: “Lanarkshire”
  • Chinese: “拉奈克郡”
  • Chinese: “拉納克郡”
  • Chinese: “拉纳克郡”
  • Czech: “Lanarkshire”
  • Dutch: “Lanarkshire”
  • Esperanto: “Lanarkshire”
  • French: “Lanarkshire”
  • Galician: “Lanarkshire”
  • German: “Lanarkshire”
  • Hebrew: “לאנרקשייר”
  • Hungarian: “Lanakshire”
  • Irish: “Lannraig”
  • Italian: “Lanarkshire”
  • Japanese: “ラナークシャー”
  • Kurdish: “Lanarkshire”
  • Latin: “Lanarkensis”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Lanarkshire”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Lanarkshire”
  • Norwegian: “Lanarkshire”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Lanercscīr”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Lanercsċīr”
  • Polish: “Lanarkshire”
  • Portuguese: “Lanarkshire”
  • Russian: “Ланаркшир”
  • Scots: “Lanrikshire”
  • Scots: “Siorrachd Lannraig”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Siorrachd Lannraig”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Lanarkshire”
  • Slovenian: “Lanarkshire”
  • Spanish: “Lanarkshire”
  • Swedish: “Lanarkshire”
  • Tajik: “Лоноркшойр”
  • Ukrainian: “Ланаркшир”
  • Urdu: “لانارک شائر”
  • Venetian: “Lanarkshire”
  • Welsh: “Siorrachd Lannraig”
  • Welsh: “Swydd Lanark”

Localities in the Area

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Notable Places Nearby

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