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Larkhall

Larkhall is a town in South Lanarkshire, Scotland, around 14 miles (23 km) southeast of Glasgow.

Larkhall
Larkhall · Otto Karikoski
The place

Larkhall is a town in South Lanarkshire, Scotland, around 14 miles (23 km) southeast of Glasgow. Larkhall sits on high ground between the River Clyde to the East and the Avon Water to the West. Larkhall sits on the edge of the scenic Clyde valley and is a commuter town for Glasgow.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Larkhall

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.

    4.8 km · football stadium in North Lanarkshire, Scotland, UK · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    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.

    4 km · castle in North Lanarkshire, Scotland, UK · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Cadzow Castle

    Cadzow Castle, now in ruins, was constructed between 1500 and 1550 at a site one mile south-east of the centre of Hamilton, South Lanarkshire, Scotland. The earlier medieval settlement of Hamilton was formerly known as Cadzow or Cadyou, until it was renamed in 1455 in honour of James Hamilton, 1st Lord Hamilton.

    3.9 km · castle in South Lanarkshire, Scotland, UK · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    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.

    2.7 km · country house in North Lanarkshire, Scotland, UK · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Hamilton Old Parish Church

    Hamilton Old Parish Church is a Church of Scotland parish church serving part of the Burgh of Hamilton in South Lanarkshire, Scotland. It is notable for its Georgian architecture and the church and grounds are Category A listed.

    6 km · church building in South Lanarkshire, Scotland, UK · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Brandon Shopping Centre

    Motherwell Shopping Centre is an outdoor shopping centre located in the centre of Motherwell, Scotland. It is owned jointly by Chester Properties and Columbus Capital, who purchased the site from previous owners CALA Properties in May 2010.

    5.9 km · outdoor shopping centre in Motherwell, Scotland · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Mauldslie Bridge

    Mauldslie Bridge is a three-segmental-arch bridge in Dalserf, South Lanarkshire, Scotland. It crosses the River Clyde between the A72 road and the former location of Mauldslie Castle.

    4.1 km · bridge in South Lanarkshire, Scotland · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    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.

    5.3 km · college in North Lanarkshire, Scotland, UK · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    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.

    5.5 km · Catholic church in North Lanarkshire, Scotland, UK · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    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.

    4.7 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 Larkhall

Airports
Glasgow (GLA), 32 km · Edinburgh (EDI), 44 km · Glasgow Prestwick (PIK), 46 km
Stations
Merryton railway station, 1.4 km · Airbles railway station, 5.2 km · Shieldmuir railway station, 4.6 km · Hamilton Central railway station, 5.8 km · Chatelherault railway station, 3.7 km
  • Ingliston, Edinburgh → Larkhall
    44 km · quickest by road, 1h 9m · £6–7
  • Prestwick, South Ayrshire → Larkhall
    48 km · quickest by road, 1h 24m · £6–9
  • Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear → Larkhall
    171 km · quickest by road, 3h 19m · £20–26
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Larkhall

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 Larkhall. 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

    75 km
  2. 02
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    91 km
  3. 03
    Isle of JuraGB

    10 ways of moving, 19 sources

    119 km
  4. 04
    Isle of CollGB

    7 ways of moving, 16 sources

    189 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 Larkhall – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

Next door to Larkhall

Larkhall is 23 km from Glasgow, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

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