Roundknowe Wood

Roundknowe Wood is a forest in North Lanarkshire, Scotland. Roundknowe Wood is situated nearby to the hamlet Southshotts Myre, as well as near the locality Well Hill.

Places of Interest

Highlights include HM Prison Shotts and Shottskirk.

HM Prison Shotts

Prison

HM Prison Shotts is a prison near Shotts, North Lanarkshire, Scotland. It is a prison holding male prisoners with maximum security classification. Shotts exclusively holds prisoners serving a term of five years or longer, with some prisoners being transferred from other prisons due to a need for a more secure environment.

Shottskirk

Place of worship

Photo: Ctollan, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Shottskirk, more commonly known as Kirk O'Shotts Parish Church, or affectionately "The M8 Church", is a local parish church located in Salsburgh, North Lanarkshire, Scotland, and serves the village of Salsburgh, the town of Shotts and the hamlets in between.

Hartwood railway station

Railway station

Photo: Nigel Thompson, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Hartwood railway station is a railway station serving Hartwood in North Lanarkshire, Scotland. It is on the Shotts Line, 19 miles east of Glasgow Central towards Edinburgh Waverley.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Shotts and Chapelhall.

Shotts

Town

Photo: Rosser1954, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Shotts is a town in North Lanarkshire, Scotland. It is located 16 miles from Glasgow and has a population of about 8,840. A local story has Shotts being named after the legendary giant highwayman Bertram de Shotts, though toponymists give the Anglo-Saxon scēots as the real source of the name.

Chapelhall

Town

Photo: Alan Stewart, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Chapelhall is a village outside the town of Airdrie in North Lanarkshire, Scotland. With house building, the distinction between Airdrie and Chapelhall is being eroded.

Allanton

Village

Photo: James Allan, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Allanton is a village on the A71, in North Lanarkshire, Scotland. Allanton Colliery was the last colliery to be built and the first colliery to be taken over by the National Coal Board in 1951.

Roundknowe Wood

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

55.8398° or 55° 50′ 23″ north

Longitude

-3.8556° or 3° 51′ 20″ west

Open location code

9C7RR4QV+WQ

OpenStreetMap ID

way 76273278

OpenStreetMap feature

natural=wood

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