Motherwell

Worth seeing in and around Motherwell

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

   Football stadium in North Lanarkshire, Scotland, UK

   1.3 km · Wikipedia
2. 02
   Roman Catholic Diocese of Motherwell

   Diocese of the Catholic Church in the Scotland

   400 m · Wikipedia
3. 03
   Motherwell Cathedral

   Church in North Lanarkshire, Scotland, UK

   400 m · Wikipedia
4. 04
   Dalzell House

   Castle in North Lanarkshire, Scotland, UK

   2.1 km · Wikipedia
5. 05
   Hamilton Palace

   Building in South Lanarkshire, Scotland, UK

   2.7 km · Wikipedia
6. 06
   M&D's

   Theme park in Motherwell, Scotland, UK

   3.2 km · Wikipedia
7. 07
   Cadzow Castle

   Castle in South Lanarkshire, Scotland, UK

   3.6 km · Wikipedia
8. 08
   Low Parks Museum

   Museum in Hamilton, Scotland, United Kingdom

   2.9 km · Wikipedia
9. 09
   Hamilton Old Parish Church

   Church building in South Lanarkshire, Scotland, UK

   3.2 km · Wikipedia
10. 10
    Carfin Grotto

    Shrine in North Lanarkshire, Scotland, UK

    2.9 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.

Getting to Motherwell

Airports

Glasgow (GLA), 29 km · Edinburgh (EDI), 43 km · Glasgow Prestwick (PIK), 49 km

Stations

Motherwell railway station, 300 m · Airbles railway station, 800 m · Hamilton Central railway station, 3.4 km · Shieldmuir railway station, 2.5 km · Chatelherault railway station, 2.8 km

• Ingliston, Edinburgh → Motherwell

  43 km · quickest by road, 58 min · £4.5–6
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• Prestwick, South Ayrshire → Motherwell

  51 km · quickest by road, 1h 17m · £6–8
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• Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear → Motherwell

  175 km · quickest by road, 3h 24m · £20–27
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No local-transport research exists yet for Motherwell

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 Motherwell. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

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