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.

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″ north

Longitude

-3.8269° or 3° 49′ 37″ west

Open location code

9C7RM5GF+J7

OpenStreetMap ID

way 98389989

OpenStreetMap feature

natural=water

OpenStreetMap feature

water=river

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Localities in the Area

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