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Auchenheath

Auchenheath is a small village in South Lanarkshire, Scotland.

Auchenheath
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The place

Auchenheath is a small village in South Lanarkshire, Scotland. It is on the River Nethan and is located near Blackwood, Kirkmuirhill, and Lanark.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Auchenheath

One place within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.

  1. 01
    Abbeygreen Church

    Abbeygreen Church is a congregation of the Free Church of Scotland in the small town of Lesmahagow, Lanarkshire. As a Christian congregation, it is presbyterian and reformed; holding the Word of God, the Holy Bible, as the supreme rule of life and doctrine and as a subordinate standard, the Westminster Confession of Faith which helps explain the doctrines of the Christian faith.

    3.5 km · church building in Lesmahagow, South Lanarkshire, Scotland, UK · Wikipedia

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Getting to Auchenheath

Airports
Glasgow (GLA), 40 km · Edinburgh (EDI), 45 km · Glasgow Prestwick (PIK), 47 km
Stations
Auchenheath railway station, 400 m
  • Glasgow → Auchenheath
    31 km · quickest by road, 47 min · £3.5–5
  • Ingliston, Edinburgh → Auchenheath
    45 km · quickest by road, 1h 18m · £6–9
  • Prestwick, South Ayrshire → Auchenheath
    49 km · quickest by road, 1h 24m · £5–7
  • From anywhere
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Auchenheath

Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Auchenheath. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Go nextAdmirers of Burns should head for Ayr, while Ardrossan has ferries for the Isle of Arran.

From Wikivoyage: Clydesdale, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2025-12.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    79 km
  2. 02
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    97 km
  3. 03
    Isle of JuraGB

    10 ways of moving, 19 sources

    125 km
  4. 04
    Isle of CollGB

    7 ways of moving, 16 sources

    197 km
  5. 05
    The Small Isles - Eigg, Muck, Rum and CannaGB

    9 ways of moving, 20 sources

    209 km

If you know how people move in Auchenheath – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

Next door to Auchenheath

Auchenheath is 31 km from Glasgow, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Lesmahagowtown in South Lanarkshire, Scotland, UK3.8 km
  • Crossfordvillage in South Lanarkshire, Scotland, UK3.5 km
  • Blackwoodvillage in South Lanarkshire, Scotland, UK1.5 km
  • Kirkmuirhillvillage in South Lanarkshire, Scotland, UK1.7 km
  • Tillietudlemvillage in South Lanarkshire, Scotland, UK2.3 km