Lesmahagow

Worth seeing in and around Lesmahagow

2 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
   Birkwood Castle

   Birkwood Castle, also known as Birkwood House, is a castellated Gothic Revival country house situated in the Greenholm village area of Lesmahagow, South Lanarkshire, Scotland. Built originally as a small Georgian manor, it was greatly expanded by the McKirdy family in the mid-1800s and later 1800s to create the better known 'Birkwood Castle'.

   600 m · Scottish country house · Wikipedia
2. 02
   Abbeygreen Church

   Abbeygreen Church is a congregation of the Free Church of Scotland in the small town of Lesmahagow, Lanarkshire. As a Christian congregation, it is presbyterian and reformed; holding the Word of God, the Holy Bible, as the supreme rule of life and doctrine and as a subordinate standard, the Westminster Confession of Faith which helps explain the doctrines of the Christian faith.

   300 m · church building in Lesmahagow, South Lanarkshire, Scotland, UK · Wikipedia

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What Wikivoyage says to see

1. 01
   Lesmahagow Priory

   This Tironensian monastery was founded in 1144 as a dependency of Kelso Abbey, replacing a group of Culdee monks.

2. 02
   Birkwood Castle: only the gatehouse remains

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Things to do

Golf: Hollandbush GC is two miles south at Auchlochan. Coalburn Leisure Complex is another mile south. It has a gym, fitness classes and 20 m swimming pool. Lesmahagow Highland Games are held on The Glebe, with the next on Sa 20 June 2026.

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Getting to Lesmahagow

Airports

Glasgow (GLA), 43 km · Glasgow Prestwick (PIK), 46 km · Edinburgh (EDI), 47 km

Stations

Alton Heights Junction railway station, 2.6 km · Auchenheath railway station, 3.8 km · Auchlochan Platform railway station, 4.3 km

• Glasgow → Lesmahagow

  34 km · quickest by road, 48 min · £4–5
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• Prestwick, South Ayrshire → Lesmahagow

  48 km · quickest by road, 1h 25m · £5–7
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• Ingliston, Edinburgh → Lesmahagow

  47 km · quickest by road, 1h 19m · £7–9
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