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Carfin

Carfin is a village in North Lanarkshire in the central lowlands of Scotland, situated to the north-east of Motherwell.

Carfin
Carfin · Stephen Hynds from Carfin, Scotland
The place

Carfin is a village in North Lanarkshire in the central lowlands of Scotland, situated to the north-east of Motherwell. Most local amenities are shared with the adjacent villages of Holytown, Newarthill and New Stevenston which have a combined population of around 20,000 across the four localities.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Carfin

10 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
    Fir Park

    Fir Park Stadium is a football stadium situated in Motherwell, North Lanarkshire, Scotland. The stadium plays host to the home matches of Scottish Premiership club Motherwell and was the temporary home of Gretna for the 2007–08 SPL season.

    2.5 km · football stadium in North Lanarkshire, Scotland, UK · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Roman Catholic Diocese of Motherwell

    The Diocese of Motherwell is a Latin Church ecclesiastical territory or diocese of the Catholic Church in Scotland.

    1.7 km · diocese of the Catholic Church in the Scotland · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Motherwell Cathedral

    The Cathedral Church of Our Lady of Good Aid, popularly known as Motherwell Cathedral, is a Roman Catholic cathedral located in the town of Motherwell in North Lanarkshire, Scotland. It is the seat of the Bishop of Motherwell and the mother church of the Diocese of Motherwell.

    1.8 km · church in North Lanarkshire, Scotland, UK · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Dalzell House

    Dalzell House is a historic house in Motherwell, North Lanarkshire, Scotland. It is located to the south of the town, on the north bank of the River Clyde.

    3.3 km · castle in North Lanarkshire, Scotland, UK · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Carfin Grotto

    Carfin Lourdes Grotto is a Catholic shrine in Scotland dedicated to Our Lady of Lourdes and created in the early twentieth century. The "Carfin Grotto", as the shrine is locally termed, was the brainchild of Canon Thomas N. Taylor, parish priest of St.

    800 m · shrine in North Lanarkshire, Scotland, UK · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Strathclyde Country Park

    Strathclyde Country Park is a country park located on the outskirts of Motherwell in North Lanarkshire, Scotland, named after the former Strathclyde region of Scotland. It is often commonly referred to as Strathclyde Park, or simply The Strathy.

    3.7 km · country park in Lanarkshire, Scotland · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    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.

    3.6 km · stadium in North Lanarkshire, Scotland, UK · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    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.

    1.3 km · stadium in North Lanarkshire, Scotland, UK · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    New College Lanarkshire

    New College Lanarkshire is a further education institution in Scotland in North Lanarkshire. The college was created in November 2013 from the merger of Cumbernauld College and Motherwell College, and in 2014 it absorbed Coatbridge College.

    1.8 km · college in North Lanarkshire, Scotland, UK · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    Bellshill Central Parish church

    Bellshill Central Parish Church is a Parish church of the Church of Scotland, serving the areas of Bellshill town centre, Mossend, Milnwood and Orbiston. It is within the Church of Scotland's Presbytery of Hamilton.

    3.8 km · church in Bellshill, United Kingdom · 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 Carfin

Airports
Glasgow (GLA), 30 km · Edinburgh (EDI), 41 km · Glasgow Prestwick (PIK), 51 km
Stations
Motherwell railway station, 2.1 km · Shieldmuir railway station, 2.6 km · Airbles railway station, 2.8 km · Cleland railway station, 3.4 km · Holytown railway station, 1.4 km
  • Ingliston, Edinburgh → Carfin
    40 km · quickest by road, 51 min · £4–5
  • Prestwick, South Ayrshire → Carfin
    53 km · quickest by road, 1h 26m · £6–8
  • Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear → Carfin
    175 km · quickest by road, 3h 32m · £21–28
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Carfin

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 Carfin. 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

    78 km
  2. 02
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    90 km
  3. 03
    Isle of JuraGB

    10 ways of moving, 19 sources

    118 km
  4. 04
    Isle of CollGB

    7 ways of moving, 16 sources

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

    9 ways of moving, 20 sources

    196 km

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

Around it

Next door to Carfin

Carfin is 20 km from Glasgow, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Motherwelltown in North Lanarkshire, Scotland, UK2.3 km
  • Clelandvillage in North Lanarkshire, Scotland, UK3.2 km
  • Holytownvillage in North Lanarkshire, Scotland, UK2.5 km
  • Newarthillvillage in North Lanarkshire, Scotland, UK2.2 km
  • New Stevenstonvillage in North Lanarkshire, Scotland, UK1.6 km
  • Ravenscraigvillage in North Lanarkshire, Scotland, UK1 km