Gowkthrapple
Gowkthrapple is a small neighbourhood of Wishaw, Scotland, situated around 3⁄4 miles (1.2 km) from the town centre.
Gowkthrapple is a small neighbourhood of Wishaw, Scotland, situated around 3⁄4 miles (1.2 km) from the town centre. The name "Gowkthrapple" is a Scots compound word made up of "gowk", meaning "idiot" or "cuckoo" and "thrapple", meaning "throat" or "strangle". One theory of how the community gained its name is that there was a woodland here which was notable for cuckoos. Gowkthrapple can be entered off of Castlehill Road which runs the length of the estate. Formerly an industrial area, associated with the Pather Iron and Steel Works and then Smith's clock factory, which opened in 1951. This closed in the 1970s, although the premises remain standing on Smith Avenue and have been reused as Garrion Business Park. In mid 2020, Gowkthrapple had an estimated population of 1,040.
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Worth seeing in and around Gowkthrapple
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Getting to Gowkthrapple
- Airports
- Glasgow (GLA), 34 km · Edinburgh (EDI), 41 km · Glasgow Prestwick (PIK), 50 km
- Stations
- Merryton railway station, 3.3 km · Shieldmuir railway station, 2.6 km · Larkhall railway station, 3.8 km · Wishaw railway station, 1.3 km
- Ingliston, Edinburgh → Gowkthrapple41 km · quickest by road, 1h 3m · £5–6
- Prestwick, South Ayrshire → Gowkthrapple52 km · quickest by road, 1h 29m · £7–9
- Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear → Gowkthrapple170 km · quickest by road, 3h 24m · £20–27
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No local-transport research exists yet for Gowkthrapple
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 Gowkthrapple. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Go nextAdmirers of Burns should head for Ayr, while Ardrossan has ferries for the Isle of Arran.
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Gowkthrapple is 24 km from Glasgow, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
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