Hillhead Plantation

Hillhead Plantation is a forest in North Lanarkshire, Scotland. Hillhead Plantation is situated nearby to the hamlet Fortissat, as well as near the locality Shepherds Hill.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Shotts railway station and Hartwood railway station.

Shotts railway station

Railway station

Photo: Nigel Thompson, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Shotts railway station is a railway station serving Shotts in North Lanarkshire, Scotland. It is located on the Shotts Line, 20½ miles east of Glasgow Central towards Edinburgh Waverley.

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.

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.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Shotts and Allanton.

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.

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.

Hartwood

Village

Photo: Jim Smillie, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Hartwood is a village in North Lanarkshire, Scotland. Nearby settlements include Shotts, Allanton and Bonkle. The area is rural, with fewer than 50 houses.

Hillhead Plantation

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

55.8352° or 55° 50′ 7″ north

Longitude

-3.8298° or 3° 49′ 47″ west

Open location code

9C7RR5PC+33

OpenStreetMap ID

way 76588915

OpenStreetMap feature

natural=wood

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