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Carluke

Carluke is a town that lies in the heart of the Lanarkshire countryside in South Lanarkshire, Scotland, 4+3⁄4 miles northwest of Lanark and 4+1⁄4 mi (7 km) southeast of Wishaw.

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The place

Carluke is a town that lies in the heart of the Lanarkshire countryside in South Lanarkshire, Scotland, 4+3⁄4 miles northwest of Lanark and 4+1⁄4 mi (7 km) southeast of Wishaw.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Carluke

3 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
    Tower of Hallbar

    16th-century tower house in Scotland

    3.5 km · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Lee Castle

    Castle in South Lanarkshire, Scotland, UK

    4 km · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Mauldslie Bridge

    Bridge in South Lanarkshire, Scotland

    4.6 km · 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 Carluke

Airports
Edinburgh (EDI), 38 km · Glasgow (GLA), 40 km · Glasgow Prestwick (PIK), 53 km
Stations
Carluke railway station, 1 km
  • Glasgow → Carluke
    30 km · quickest by road, 48 min · £3.5–4.5
  • Prestwick, South Ayrshire → Carluke
    56 km · quickest by road, 1h 35m · £7–9
  • Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear → Carluke
    164 km · quickest by road, 3h 27m · £20–27
  • From anywhere
    The planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
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Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.

Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Carluke

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 Carluke. 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

    84 km
  2. 02
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    99 km
  3. 03
    Isle of JuraGB

    10 ways of moving, 19 sources

    127 km
  4. 04
    Isle of CollGB

    7 ways of moving, 16 sources

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

    9 ways of moving, 20 sources

    207 km

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

Around it

Next door to Carluke

Carluke is 30 km from Glasgow, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Crossfordvillage in South Lanarkshire, Scotland, UK4.4 km
  • Overtownvillage in North Lanarkshire, Scotland, UK5.3 km
  • ClydesdaleScottish local government district (1975-1996), part of Strathclyde region3.8 km
  • Lawvillage in South Lanarkshire, Scotland, UK3.6 km
  • Morningsidevillage in North Lanarkshire, Scotland, UK5.3 km
  • Netherburnvillage in South Lanarkshire, Scotland, UK5.2 km