Clyde Valley Family Park’s Island
Clyde Valley Family Park’s Island is a forest in South Lanarkshire, Scotland. Clyde Valley Family Park’s Island is situated nearby to the hamlet Birkhill, as well as near Braehead House.Places of Interest
Highlights include Craignethan Castle and Lee Castle.
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.
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.
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 Carluke and Lanark.
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.
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.
Clyde Valley Family Park’s Island
- Type: Forest
- Location: South Lanarkshire, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
55.6923° or 55° 41′ 32″ northLongitude
-3.8596° or 3° 51′ 35″ westOpen location code
9C7RM4RR+W4OpenStreetMap ID
way 830695599OpenStreetMap feature
natural=wood
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Localities in the Area
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