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Lanarkshire (Lanark, Glasgow, East Kilbride, Hamilton, Motherwell,
Coatbridge, Carluke)
Lanarkshire offers a tremendous mix of
environment from the highly residential and industrial Clyde Valley
which borders on to Glasgow to the southern uplands of the Tinto and
Lowther Hills mostly farmland.
Despite its primarily industrial past
which accounted for Lanarkshire being the most heavily populated
county in Scotland, the county is steeped in both leisure and
history. Bothwell Castle near Hamilton and Craignethan Castle near
Crossford bear witness to an historic past.
The building of Bothwell Castle started
in the early 13th century but ownership was passed to the Earls of
Moray and then the Douglasses before, during and after the battles
of independence.
The Crichtons who were a major instigator of the Douglass' demise
(the murder of two of the Earls) were granted ownership of the
Castle by the King and the lands went in part to the Hamiltons.
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