#OTD in 1966, Cobbinshaw railway station was closed. Addiewell railway station is now the nearest station, 5km away.
Crosshouse railway station, Greenhill Lower railway station, Throsk railway station, etc. closed on the same day.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cobbinshaw_railway_station

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The South Lanarkshire area has 142 category A listed buildings on #wikidata. Terraces and Summerhouse, Barncluith has a #wikipedia article.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terraces_and_Summerhouse,_Barncluith

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#OTD in 1968, Lanark Racecourse railway station was closed. Lanark railway station is now the nearest station, 2km away.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lanark_Racecourse_railway_station

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#OTD in 1965, Symington railway station was closed. Carstairs railway station is now the nearest station, 10km away.
Flemington railway station, Abington railway station, Crawford (South Lanarkshire) railway station, etc. closed on the same day.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symington_railway_station

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The tantalising remains of the little-known Lesmahagow Priory in South Lanarkshire. Founded in 1144, everything but the priory church was quarried down to ground level for its stone in the 1600s. More pics and info: https://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/lesmahagow/priory/index.html

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Rutherglen, three miles south-east of the centre of Glasgow. It was chartered as a royal burgh in 1126 and for a while was more important than its now much larger neighbour. More pics and info: https://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/glasgow/rutherglen/index.html

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Craignathen.

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Visited Chatelherault Country Park (near Hamilton, South of Glasgow) today. Part of Clyde Valley Woodlands National Nature Reserve, it's a deep wooded valley of broadleaf woodland, some semi-natural and some regenerating after the post-WWII plantation forests were cut down. There's something for everyone here, an ancient castle (Cadzow or Cadȝow if you like yoghs), 800-year-old oaks, and disused railways.

It was one of the warmest days of the year (I think) but even so – the birdsong was amazing. I heard a woodpecker (I don't think it was a Great Spotted, the call was a bit wrong), my second chiffchaff of the year (sounding rather different from those that come to Finland), many many song thrushes, coal tits, corvids of all sorts, very loud robins, and much more.

There are still some huge ash trees, which I suspect will not last long with chalara fraxinea (ash dieback) being so ubiquitous here. More happily, there was lots of coltsfoot flowering.

The last time I was here would be around 1996, 28 years ago...

Apparently the area is important for its beetles, amongst other things: https://sitelink.nature.scot/site/760

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