HM Prison Shotts

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.

Type: Prison
Description: prison in North Lanarkshire, Scotland, UK
Also known as: “HMP Shotts”
Address: Shotts, ML7 4LE

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Shotts railway station and Hannah Park.

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. Shotts railway station is situated 1¼ miles southeast of HM Prison Shotts.

Hannah Park

Sports venue

Photo: Robert Guthrie, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Shotts Bon Accord Football Academy are a Scottish football club based in the town of Shotts, North Lanarkshire. The club was formed in 1950 and currently competes in the West of Scotland League Premier Division. Hannah Park is situated 3,900 feet east of HM Prison Shotts.

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. Hartwood railway station is situated 1¼ miles southwest of HM Prison Shotts.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Shotts and Hartwood.

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.

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.

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. Allanton is situated 2 miles south of HM Prison Shotts.

HM Prison Shotts

Category: government building
Location: North Lanarkshire, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude

55.82877° or 55° 49′ 44″ north

Longitude

-3.82551° or 3° 49′ 32″ west

Open location code

9C7RR5HF+GQ

OpenStreetMap ID

way 781433176

OpenStreetMap feature

amenity=prison

Wikidata ID

Q5635259

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Notable Places Nearby

Highlights include Learning Circle and Shotts Nature Park.

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