IMAGES TAKEN NEAR TO
Wilsontown Road, LANARK, ML11 8ER
Introduction
This page details the photographs taken nearby to Wilsontown Road, ML11 8ER by members of the Geograph project.
The Geograph project started in 2005 with the aim of publishing, organising and preserving representative images for every square kilometre of Great Britain, Ireland and the Isle of Man.
There are currently over 7.5m images from over14,400 individuals and you can help contribute to the project by visiting https://www.geograph.org.uk
Image Map
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Notes
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- The higher the marker number, the further away the image location is from the centre of the postcode.
Image Listing (38 Images Found)
Images are licensed for reuse under creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0
Image
Details
Distance
1
Cottages: Rootpark
Among the oldest dwellings on Wilsontown Road
Image: © Jim Smillie
Taken: 2 Aug 2021
0.02 miles
2
Wilsontown Road
The main street of the current village of Wilsontown, which seems also to be called Rootpark.
Image: © M J Richardson
Taken: 15 Sep 2017
0.08 miles
5
Wilsontown Branch
A railway which served the coal mining villages of Haywood and Wilsontown. Wilsontown was originally an iron smelting centre, but isolated from its markets and the sea. The railway arrived after the ironworks had closed.
Image: © Richard Webb
Taken: 10 Sep 2010
0.11 miles
6
Entrance to woodland walks at Wilsontown
Image: © Chris Wimbush
Taken: 8 May 2006
0.12 miles
7
The entrance to Wilsontown
Dated 2012, a fine entrance to this historic site.
Image: © M J Richardson
Taken: 15 Sep 2017
0.13 miles
8
The way out from Wilsontown
The modern settlement is beyond. It passes between the buttresses of the bridge that carried the Wilsontown Branch of the railway from Wilsontown Junction on the Edinburgh-Carstairs line.
Image: © M J Richardson
Taken: 15 Sep 2017
0.13 miles
9
Historic Wilsontown
A display of photographs of the old village of Wilsontown when it was a flourishing ironworks in the 19thC. On the buttress of the bridge that carried the railway over what is now the entrance to the site.
Image: © M J Richardson
Taken: 15 Sep 2017
0.13 miles
10
A letter to Robert Wilson
One of the exhibits in Image is a letter to Robert Wilson, who discovered ironstone at what became Willamstown, confirming that 'Perhaps there is merit in this enterprise after all'.
Image: © M J Richardson
Taken: 15 Sep 2017
0.13 miles