Eating, Drinking & Local Attractions

Eating & Drinking

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• Chancellors at Shieldhill Castle Awarded 2 AA Rosettes. The best locally sourced fresh ingredients. Quothquan, Biggar, ML12 6NA.

• The Gordon Arms Hotel Bar and Restaurant. Dolphinton Road, West Linton, EH46 7DR.

• The Hopetoun Arms Hotel A family friendly hotel offering good quality bar meals, afternoon teas, evening meals and food to take away. 37 Main Street, Leadhills, Wanlockhead. ML12 6XP.

• Inn on the Loch Restaurant & Bar Providing the best country Inn food in relaxed and pleasant surroundings. 179 Hyndford Road, Lanark, ML11 9BJ.

• The Old Bakehouse Restaurant Blend of established favourites and a weekly market menu. Main Street, West Linton, EH46 7EA.

• Ristorante La Vigna Award winning Italian restaurant. Wellgate, Lanark.

• Taj Mahal A family run restaurant offering Indian cuisine prepared and cooked by our Chef - M Safdar; a finalist in the Scottish Irn-Bru Curry Awards 2009.

• Townhead Cafe Awarded "Best fish and chip shop in the UK" in 2008. 189 High Street, Biggar, ML12 6DJ.

Local Attractions

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• Albion Museum and Archive A small motor museum. 9 Edinburgh Road, Biggar ML12 6AX.

• Biggar Gasworks Museum Showroom, gasometers, cooling towers, purifiers, a coal house, retort house and wash house. (Undiscovered Scotland Feature Page)

• Biggar Kirk Church in Biggar. (Undiscovered Scotland Feature Page)

• Biggar Museum Trust Seven museums in the Biggar area.

• Brownsbank Cottage Farm labourer's cottage which was the home of Hugh MacDiarmid from 1951 to 1978. Candymill, Biggar, South Lanarkshire ML12 6DT.

• Clydesdale Folk Club The CFC meets on the last Thursday of the month in the Elphinstone Hotel, Biggar.

• Clyde Valley Woodlands NNR This reserve features gorge woodland that’s typical of the Clyde Valley. The steep gorges have protected the rich mix of ash, oak and wych elm trees from felling and grazing. Near Lanark and Carluke.

• Coulter Motte A good example of a Norman castle mound, which would have been surmounted by a palisade and timber tower. (Undiscovered Scotland Feature Page)

• Craignethan Castle Very unusual castle on the spur of a ridge. (Undiscovered Scotland Feature Page)

• Crawfordjohn Heritage Venture Celebrates the special nature of life in Lanarkshire’s southern uplands. The Old Church, Main Street, Crawfordjohn ML12 6SU.

• Douglas Heritage Museum Highlighting village life, the Douglas family and the Cameronian Regiment. St Sophia’s, Bell’s Wynd, Douglas ML11 0QH.

• Gladstone Court Museum Recreation of a Victorian street. North Back Road, Biggar. (Undiscovered Scotland Feature Page)

• Greenhill Covenanters' Museum Return to the troubled time of the signing of the National Covenant and the Killing Times. Burn Braes, Biggar ML12 6DT.

• John Buchan Museum Old Free Kirk, Broughton.

• Lanark Museum A collection of items which illustrate the ancient and varied history of the town. 8 West Port, Lanark ML11 9HD.

• Leadhills & Wanlockhead Railway Britain's highest adhesion railway, reaching 1498 feet above sea level, it was originally built in 1900 for the Caledonian Railway Company. The Station, Leadhills ML12 6XP.

• Leadhills Miners Library The library was founded in 1741 and the Leadhills Reading Society is the oldest subscription library in the UK. 15 Main Street Leadhills Biggar ML12 6XP.

• Little Sparta Part garden, part open air art gallery, the work of Ian Hamilton Finlay. Little Sparta, Dunsyre, South Lanarkshire ML11 8NG.

• Moat Park Heritage Centre All aspects of the upper part of Clydesdale and Tweeddale. Kirkstyle. (Undiscovered Scotland Feature Page)

• Museum of Lead Mining Visit a real lead mine. Wanlockhead, By Biggar ML12 6UT. STB 4 Star Attraction.

• New Lanark Water powered mill complex and much more. STB 4 Star Visitor Attraction.(Undiscovered Scotland Feature Page)

• St Mary's Aisle Next to Carnwath Parish Church. (Undiscovered Scotland Feature Page)

• St Ninian's Church Home of a remarkable Norman stone arch. (Undiscovered Scotland Feature Page)

• Wanlockhead Beam Engine An early 19th-century wooden water-balance pump for draining a lead mine, with the track of a horse engine beside it. In Wanlockhead village.

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