State Hospital
The State Hospital is a psychiatric hospital located close to the villages of Carstairs and Carstairs Junction, in South Lanarkshire, Scotland. It provides care and treatment in conditions of high security for patients from Scotland and Northern Ireland.Photo: Alan Stewart, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- Type: Hospital
- Description: secure psychiatric hospital in South Lanarkshire, Scotland, UK
- Also known as: “Carstairs Prison” and “The State Hospital”
- Address: Lampits Road, Carstairs, Lanark, ML11 8RP
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Carstairs railway station and Carstairs Junction, War Memorial.
Carstairs railway station
Railway station
Photo: Rosser1954, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Carstairs railway station serves the village of Carstairs in South Lanarkshire, Scotland and is a major junction station on the West Coast Main Line, situated close to the point at which the lines from London Euston and Edinburgh to Glasgow Central merge. Carstairs railway station is situated 3,600 feet southwest of State Hospital.
Carstairs Junction, War Memorial
Memorial
Photo: Richard Webb, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Carstairs Junction, War Memorial is situated 3,400 feet southwest of State Hospital.
Carstairs House
Building
Photo: Greg Morss, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Carstairs House, also known as Monteith House, is a country house 1.5 kilometres south-west of Carstairs, South Lanarkshire, Scotland. The house is protected as a category A listed building. Carstairs House is situated 1½ miles southwest of State Hospital.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Carstairs Junction and Carnwath.
Carstairs Junction
Village
Photo: Alan Stewart, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Carstairs Junction is a village in South Lanarkshire. Taking its name from the village of Carstairs and nearby railway junction, the village grew around the railway station which opened in 1848.
Carnwath
Village
Photo: Kim Traynor, CC BY 3.0.
Carnwath is a moorland village on the southern edge of the Pentland Hills of South Lanarkshire, Scotland. The village lies about 30 mi south of both Edinburgh and Glasgow. It is bounded by the North Medwyn and South Medwyn watercourses.
Carstairs
Photo: Adam Black GB, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Carstairs is a village in Clydesdale, one of string of villages north bank of the upper River Clyde. Carstairs Junction grew up later when the railway arrived, while Carnwath is an old market town, population 1360.
State Hospital
- Categories: psychiatric hospital and health care
- Location: South Lanarkshire, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
55.69517° or 55° 41′ 43″ northLongitude
-3.65332° or 3° 39′ 12″ westOperator
NHS ScotlandOpen location code
9C7RM8WW+3MOpenStreetMap ID
way 89034483OpenStreetMap feature
amenity=hospitalOpenStreetMap feature
healthcare=hospitalWikidata ID
Q7603368
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In Other Languages
From Bosnian to Spanish—“State Hospital” goes by many names.
- Bosnian: “Državna bolnica za Škotsku i Sjevernu Irsku”
- Dutch: “State Hospital”
- French: “State Hospital”
- German: “State Hospital”
- Italian: “State Hospital”
- Spanish: “State Hospital”
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