Highmainshead Wood

Highmainshead Wood is a forest in North Lanarkshire, Scotland. Highmainshead Wood is situated nearby to the hamlet Durhambank Orchard, as well as near the suburb Gowkthrapple.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Wishaw railway station and Cambusnethan House.

Wishaw railway station

Railway station

Photo: Nigel Thompson, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Wishaw railway station serves the town of Wishaw, in North Lanarkshire, Scotland. The station is managed by ScotRail and lies on the Wishaw Deviation Line, just south of the single tracked link line which connects to the West Coast Main Line at Shieldmuir.

Cambusnethan House

Historic site

Photo: Enigs, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Cambusnethan House, or Cambusnethan Priory, in North Lanarkshire, Scotland, was designed by James Gillespie Graham and completed in 1820. It is listed on the Buildings at Risk Register for Scotland as a building facing "critical" risk, having been damaged by fire in the 1980s and since vandalized.

University Hospital Wishaw

Hospital

Photo: Elliott Simpson, CC BY-SA 2.0.

University Hospital Wishaw is a district general hospital in Wishaw, North Lanarkshire, situated between the areas of Craigneuk to the north and Netherton to the south. The hospital, managed by NHS Lanarkshire, is 11 miles southeast of Glasgow.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Motherwell and Carluke.

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.

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.

Wishaw

Town

Photo: Iain Thompson, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Wishaw is a town in North Lanarkshire, Scotland; it is sited on the edge of the Clyde Valley, 15 miles south-east of Glasgow city centre. The town forms part of the Motherwell and Wishaw parliamentary constituency.

Highmainshead Wood

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

55.7528° or 55° 45′ 10″ north

Longitude

-3.9333° or 3° 55′ 60″ west

Open location code

9C7RQ338+4M

OpenStreetMap ID

way 35809593

OpenStreetMap feature

natural=wood

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