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Carstairs
Sign in to saveCarstairs (, Scottish Gaelic: Caisteal Tarrais) is a village in South Lanarkshire, Scotland, located east of the county town of Lanark. The West Coast Main Line provides service to Carstairs railway station, which is served by the Caledonian Sleeper, ScotRail and TransPennine Express services. Carstairs is best known as the location of the State Hospital. Carstairs is applied to the places Carstairs Village and the village of Carstairs Junction where the railway station is situated. The two places are two completely different villages divided by of land, a parkland area (Monteith Park) and the
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- Locality
- Carstairs
- Region
- Alba / Scotland
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Population
- 890
- Timezone
- Europe/London
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Key facts
- UK place.country
- Scotland
- UK place.official_name
- Carstairs
- UK place.gaelic_name
- Caisteal Tarrais
- UK place.population_ref
- ()
- UK place.os_grid_reference
- NS938460
- UK place.unitary_scotland
- South Lanarkshire
- UK place.lieutenancy_scotland
- Lanarkshire
- UK place.constituency_westminster
- Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale
- UK place.constituency_scottish_parliament
- Clydesdale
- UK place.post_town
- LANARK
- UK place.postcode_district
- ML11
- UK place.postcode_area
- ML
- UK place.dial_code
- 01555
- UK place.static_image
- Carstairs Village Green - geograph.org.uk - 119801.jpg
- UK place.static_image_caption
- Carstairs Village Green
- UK place.community_scotland
- Carstairs
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Carstairs (, Scottish Gaelic: Caisteal Tarrais) is a village in South Lanarkshire, Scotland, located east of the county town of Lanark. The West Coast Main Line provides service to Carstairs railway station, which is served by the Caledonian Sleeper, ScotRail and TransPennine Express services. Carstairs is best known as the location of the State Hospital. Carstairs is applied to the places Carstairs Village and the village of Carstairs Junction where the railway station is situated. The two places are two completely different villages divided by of land, a parkland area (Monteith Park) and the railway line.
Carstairs Village has massively expanded since 2007 with the building of Millwood Estate.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Carstairs” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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