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Cambusnethan

Cambusnethan is a historic parish in North Lanarkshire in Scotland.

Cambusnethan
Cambusnethan · Dylan Avery
The place

Cambusnethan is a historic parish in North Lanarkshire in Scotland. The largest settlement in the parish is Wishaw, and Cambusnethan now appears on maps as a village almost contiguous with Wishaw. The village is approximately 1.5 miles (2.4 km) long, straddling both sides of the A722 road on a hill overlooking Wishaw.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Cambusnethan

4 places 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
    Cambusnethan House

    Cambusnethan House, or Cambusnethan Priory, in North Lanarkshire, Scotland, was designed by James Gillespie Graham and completed in 1820. It is listed on the Buildings at Risk Register for Scotland as a building facing "critical" risk, having been damaged by fire in the 1980s and since vandalized.

    3.9 km · country house in North Lanarkshire, Scotland, UK · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    St. Ignatius Church

    St Ignatius Church is a Roman Catholic parish church in the town of Wishaw in North Lanarkshire, Scotland, within the Diocese of Motherwell. The church building was constructed in 1865, and is a category A listed building.

    1.2 km · Catholic church in North Lanarkshire, Scotland, UK · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Beltane Park

    Wishaw Football Club is a Scottish football club based in the town of Wishaw, North Lanarkshire. The club currently competes in the West of Scotland League Fourth Division.

    2.4 km · stadium in North Lanarkshire, Scotland, UK · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Dalziel Park

    Dalziel Park is an area located between the villages of Carfin, Cleland and Newarthill in North Lanarkshire, Scotland. Other nearby settlements include the large town of Motherwell and the new town of Ravenscraig.

    3.7 km · stadium in North 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.

Go there

Getting to Cambusnethan

Airports
Glasgow (GLA), 35 km · Edinburgh (EDI), 38 km · Glasgow Prestwick (PIK), 53 km
Stations
Cleland railway station, 2.9 km · Shieldmuir railway station, 3.7 km · Wishaw railway station, 1.9 km
  • Prestwick, South Ayrshire → Cambusnethan
    55 km · quickest by road, 1h 33m · £6–9
  • Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear → Cambusnethan
    170 km · quickest by road, 3h 28m · £20–27
  • Aberdeen → Cambusnethan
    188 km · quickest by road, 3h 34m · £22–29
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Cambusnethan

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 Cambusnethan. 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

    81 km
  2. 02
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    95 km
  3. 03
    Isle of JuraGB

    10 ways of moving, 19 sources

    122 km
  4. 04
    Isle of CollGB

    7 ways of moving, 16 sources

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

    9 ways of moving, 20 sources

    200 km

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

Around it

Next door to Cambusnethan

Cambusnethan is 24 km from Glasgow, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Clelandvillage in North Lanarkshire, Scotland, UK2.8 km
  • Overtownvillage in North Lanarkshire, Scotland, UK2.9 km
  • Newmainsvillage in North Lanarkshire, Scotland, UK1.4 km
  • Lawvillage in South Lanarkshire, Scotland, UK3.4 km
  • Morningsidevillage in North Lanarkshire, Scotland, UK1.9 km
  • Bonklevillage in North Lanarkshire, Scotland, UK2.7 km