For other places with the same name, see Lanark (disambiguation).

Lanark is a small market town in Clydesdale, South West Scotland, and is nowadays a commuter town for Glasgow. The prime reason to visit is for the nearby UNESCO world heritage site of New Lanark. It was at Lanark that William Wallace (1270-1305) first strode into history, leading a 1297 uprising against the English and killing the Sheriff. This escalated into the First War of Scottish Independence, and Wallace triumphed a few months later at the Battle of Stirling Bridge.

Get in

Wellgate, Lanark

By train: trains run from Glasgow Central every 30 mins via Motherwell, Wishaw and Carluke to Lanark, taking an hour. From Edinburgh or England, change at Motherwell.

• 1 Lanark Station, Bannatyne Street, Lanark, ML11 7JP. Railway station in Lanark. (updated Jun 2022)

By bus: buses run from Lanark Interchange to Glasgow, Hamilton, Motherwell and various towns and villages around Lanark.

• 2 Lanark Interchange, Bannatyne Street, Lanark, ML11 7JR. Bus station in Lanark. (updated Jun 2022)
  • 8: Lesmahagow via Kirkfieldbank and Kirkmuirhill (Sundays only)
  • 9: Glespin via Kirkfieldbank, Douglas Water, Rigside and Douglas (Sundays only)
  • 30/31: Wanlockhead via Thankerton, Abington, Crawford and Leadhills
  • 34/34A: Forth or Livingston via Cleghorn and Harelaw
  • 37: Carnwath via Carstairs and Carstairs Junction
  • 41: Hamilton via Carluke, Wishaw and Motherwell
  • 91/191: Biggar via Thankerton and Symington
  • 135: Lanark Circular and New Lanark
  • 137: Forth to Carnwath circular, via Cleghorn, Carstairs and Carstairs Junction (evenings and Sundays only)
  • 240X/241X: Glasgow via Carluke, Wishaw and Motherwell
  • 258: Lesmahagow via Kirkfieldbank and Kirkmuirhill
  • 259: Glespin via Kirkfieldbank, Douglas Water, Rigside and Douglas
  • 317: Hamilton via Kirkfieldbank, Crossford, Garrion Bridge and Larkhall

By car: Lanark is near the junctions of the A70, A72 and A73. New Lanark is signposted on brown tourist signs from the M8 and M74 motorways.

Get around

To New Lanark: Stuarts Coaches Bus 135 runs between town and New Lanark, M-Sat hourly and two per hour Sunday. It's a ten minute ride, or a two mile walk.

Taxi: a ride within town will cost around £5, to New Lanark will be about £10. Several firms are based along the High Street:

• 3 Clydewide Taxis, 99 High Street, Lanark, ML11 7LN, ☏ +44 1555 666333, toll-free: 0800 050 9264. (updated Jun 2022)
• 4 Lanark Taxis, 68 High Street, Lanark, ML11 7ES, ☏ +44 1555 664105. (updated Jun 2022)

See

Statue of the Girnin Dug on Castlegate, Lanark.

• 1 Cartland Craigs, Lanark Road, Lanark. A nature reserve to the north-west of Lanark, part of the Clyde Valley Woodlands National Nature Reserve. (updated Jun 2022)
• 2 Castlebank Park, St Patrick's Road, Lanark, ML11 9EG, info@lanarktrust.co.uk. (updated Jun 2022)
• 3 Cleghorn Glen, Stanmore Road, Lanark. A nature reserve in the north-east of Lanark, part of the Clyde Valley Woodlands National Nature Reserve. (updated Jun 2022)
• 4 Delves Park, Delves Road, Lanark, customer.services@southlanarkshire.gov.uk. (updated Jun 2022)
• 5 The Girnin Dug, 15 Castlegate, Lanark, ML11 9DZ. At 15 Castlegate is the statue of a dog, erected in the 1840s by its owner after it was poisoned. He suspected the culprit was his neighbour Miss Inglis, who had strenously opposed him building next door to her. So he put up this statue on his roof, its reproachful expression directed into Miss Inglis' parlour window. Her house is long gone so the dog now girns in an unfocussed manner towards the Lidl supermarket. (updated Jun 2022)
• 6 Lanark Museum, 29 Bloomgate, ML11 9ET, ☏ +44 1555 666680, lanarkmuseum@hotmail.com. Thu-Sat 11:00 to 16:00. Tells the history of the town, which is one of Scotland's oldest burghs. (updated Jun 2022)

Do

• Lanark Lanimers: "Lanimers" means Land Marches, or beating the bounds of the burgh. A ceremony has been held each year since 1140, usually on the Thursday between 6 and 12 June. Dressing up, parades, pipe bands and suchlike.
• 1 Lanark Golf Club, Whitelees Road, Lanark, ☏ +44 1555 663219, info@lanarkgolfclub.co.uk. (updated Jun 2022)
• 2 Lanark Tennis Club, Chapland Road, Lanark, ML11 7QL, lanarktennisclub@gmail.com. 07:30-22:00. (updated Jun 2022)
• 3 Scottish Equestrian Centre, Lanark Race Course ML11 9TA, ☏ +44 1555 661853, info@scottishequestrianhotel.com. Activity based stays: riding lessons, hacking, forest trails, ponies. With its own hotel and B&B on site. The Centre is on the old race course, which closed as a racing venue back in 1977. The nearest racetrack is at Hamilton Park, which has flat-racing May-Oct. (updated Jun 2022)

Buy

• 1 Braidfute Retail Park, Hyndford Road, Lanark, ML11 7LQ. Retail park in the heart of Lanark with various High Street stores including Argos, B&M, Peacock and Lidl. (updated Jun 2022)
• 2 High Street, High Street, Lanark. The main shopping area of Lanark, with various independent local stores, High Street brands such as Poundland and Costa, banks including Nationwide and Royal Bank of Scotland, and a selection of charity shops. (updated Jun 2022)
• 3 Wellgate, Wellgate, Lanark. Just off High Street, this area of Lanark is home to many independent local businesses. (updated Jun 2022)

Eat

• 1 Inn on the Loch, 179 Hyndford Road, Lanark, ML11 9BJ, ☏ +44 1555 663638. (updated Jun 2022)
• 2 La Vigna, 40 Wellgate, Lanark, ML11 9DT, ☏ +44 1555 664320. Mon-Sat 12:00 to 14:30 and 17:00 to 22:00; Sunday 12:00 to 15:00 and 17:00 to 21:30. (updated Jun 2022)
• 3 Prego, 3 High Street, ML11 7LU, ☏ +44 1555 666300. Tue-Sun 12:00 to 14:00 and 17:00 to 23:00; Closed Monday. Offers pizza, pasta and seafood, and other Italian cuisine. (updated Jan 2019)

Drink

• 1 Clydesdale Inn, 15 Bloomgate, ML11 7ET, ☏ +44 1555 678740. Su-Th 09:00-23:00, F 09:00-01:00, Sa 09:00-00:00. No longer a Wetherspoon and the food has since very much improved. I would highly recommend visiting the establishment and has a decent selection of alcohol. (updated Jan 2019)
• 2 The Crown Tavern, 17-21 Hope Street, Lanark, ML11 7NE, ☏ +44 1555 664639, info@crown-tavern.co.uk. (updated Jun 2022)
• 3 Horse & Jockey Bar, 56 High Street, Lanark, ML11 7ES, ☏ +44 1555 664825. (updated Jun 2022)
• 4 Maisies Bar, 12 Wellgate, ML11 9DT, ☏ +44 1555 664644. M-F 11:00-01:00, Sa 11:00-00:00, Su 12:30-01:00. "The braw wee pub" is a traditional Scottish bar, sometimes drouthy, never snooty. (updated Sep 2019)
• 5 Miss D's, South Vennel, Lanark, ML11 7JT. (updated Jun 2022)
• 6 The Wallace Cave, 11 Broomgate, Lanark, ML11 9ET, ☏ +44 1555 663662. (updated Jun 2022)
• 7 The Wee Man's, 34 Castlegate, Lanark, ML11 9EF, ☏ +44 1555 661379. (updated Jun 2022)
• 8 The Woodpecker Bar & Restaurant, 20 Wide Close, Lanark, ML11 7LX, ☏ +44 555 665161, talk@woodpeckerlanark.co.uk. (updated Jun 2022)

Sleep

• 1 New Lanark Mill Hotel, Mill No. 1, New Lanark, Lanark, ML11 9DB, ☏ +44 1555 667200, hotel@newlanark.org. (updated Jun 2022)
• 2 Rosemount Boutique B&B, 14-16 Westport, Lanark, ML11 9HD, ☏ +44 7746 468900, info@rosemountboutiquebandb.co.uk. (updated Jun 2022)
• Scottish Equestrian Centre, Racecourse, Lanark, ML11 9TA, ☏ +44 1555 661853, info@scottishequestrianhotel.com. See listing under Do for details. (updated Jun 2022)
• 3 The Village Inn, 89 Lanark Road, Carstairs, Lanark, ML11 8QQ, ☏ +44 1555 870263, hello@carstairsvillageinn.com. Check-in: 15:00 to 21:00, check-out: 10:30. (updated Jun 2022)
• 4 The Westport B&B, 5 Westport, Lanark, ML11 9HD, ☏ +44 7447 223999. (updated Jun 2022)

Connect

As of July 2021, Lanark and its nearby villages and highways have 4G from EE and Vodafone, a basic mobile signal from Three, but no coverage by O2. 5G has not reached this area.

Go next

• Visit other towns and villages in Clydesdale:
  • 1 Biggar (91/191 bus services from Lanark Interchange). (updated Jun 2022)
  • 2 Carluke (41 bus service from Lanark Interchange; any train from Lanark Station). (updated Jun 2022)
  • 3 Carnwath (37/137 bus services from Lanark Interchange). (updated Jun 2022)
  • 4 Carstairs (37/137 bus services from Lanark Interchange). A village to the north east of Lanark. There is a village green and an old church, with a village pub and hotel. A gala day is held every June. (updated Jun 2022)
  • 5 Carstairs Junction (37/137 bus services from Lanark Interchange). Approximately 1 kilometre from Carstairs, this village grew up around Carstairs railway station. There was a much smaller village on this site prior to the arrival of the railways known as Strawfrank. As well as the train station, which offers services to Glasgow, Edinburgh and London, there is a play area and recreation area nearby, as well as the Monteith family mausoleum nearby. (updated Jun 2022)
  • 6 Douglas (9/259 bus services from Lanark Interchange). (updated Jun 2022)
  • 7 Kirkfieldbank (8/9/258/259/317 bus services from Lanark Interchange). (updated Jun 2022)
  • 8 Lesmahagow (8/258 bus services from Lanark Interchange). (updated Jun 2022)
  • 9 New Lanark (135 bus service from Lanark Interchange). A UNESCO World Heritage Site roughly a kilometre from Lanark town centre. (updated Jun 2022)
• Follow A70 west towards Alloway near Ayr, birthplace of Robert Burns, or to Ardrossan the ferry port for the Isle of Arran.
• East, head via Peebles into the Tweed valley and Scottish Borders, with fine ruined abbeys at Melrose and Jedburgh.
• Glasgow and Edinburgh are just over an hour away.

Routes through Lanark

Ayr ← Douglas ← ←	SW  NE	→ Carstairs → Edinburgh
Hamilton ←	NW  SE	→ merges with until Symington → Biggar
Cumbernauld ← Carluke ←	NW  SE	→ Abington
Glasgow Central ← Motherwell ←	NW  S	→ END