Carlinside Strip

Carlinside Strip is a forest in South Lanarkshire, Scotland. Carlinside Strip is situated near the hamlet West Town of Nemphlar, as well as near Orchardville.

Places of Interest

Highlights: Lee Castle and Craignethan Castle.

Lee Castle

Castle

Photo: John Preston Neale, Public domain.

Lee Castle, also known as The Lee, is a castellated mansion in Auchenglen, a branch of the Clyde Valley in South Lanarkshire, Scotland. It is located 1.5 kilometres south of Braidwood, and 4 kilometres north-west of Lanark.

Craignethan Castle

Castle

Photo: Hugh Miller, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Craignethan Castle is a ruined castle in South Lanarkshire, Scotland. It is located above the River Nethan, a tributary of the River Clyde, at NS816464.

Black Hill

Peak

The Black Hill in South Lanarkshire is owned by the National Trust for Scotland. It overlooks the Clyde Valley, and is the location of a burial cairn from the Bronze Age and an Iron Age fortress.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Lanark and New Lanark.

Lanark

Photo: AlasdairW, CC BY-SA 3.0.

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.

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.

Carluke

Photo: G Laird, CC BY-SA 2.0.

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.

Carlinside Strip

Type: Forest
Location: South Lanarkshire, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude

55.6855° or 55° 41′ 8″ north

Longitude

-3.845° or 3° 50′ 42″ west

Open location code

9C7RM5P3+5X

OpenStreetMap ID

way 356945083

OpenStreetMap feature

natural=wood

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Localities in the Area

Places to explore: West Town of Nemphlar and Orchardville.

Notable Places Nearby

Highlights: Triple Falls and Big Wood.

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Worth a closer look: Edinburgh and Glasgow.

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