River Clyde
River Clyde is a river in South Lanarkshire, Scotland. River Clyde is situated nearby to the locality Stonebyres, as well as near the hamlet Upper Cairnie.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Places of Interest
Highlights include Lee Castle and Black Hill.
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.
Stonebyres Falls
Waterfall
Photo: Alan Pitkethley, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Stonebyres Falls is a waterfall of the River Clyde in Scotland. It is located on the former Stonebyres estate at the site of Stonebyres Castle.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include New Lanark and Lanark.
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.
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.
Lesmahagow
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Lesmahagow is a small town in Clydesdale just off M74, with a population of 4300 in 2020. The town name means "the enclosure of St Machutus" though only the Priory foundations remain.
River Clyde
- Type: River
- Category: body of water
- Location: South Lanarkshire, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
55.6766° or 55° 40′ 36″ northLongitude
-3.8269° or 3° 49′ 37″ westOpen location code
9C7RM5GF+J7OpenStreetMap ID
way 98389989OpenStreetMap feature
natural=waterOpenStreetMap feature
water=river
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