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Parish: Carnwath Parish

  • March 4, 2025
    In late 1915, winter added to the misery of life on the western front, while retreat from Gallipoli brought an…
  • February 12, 2025
    Recent news about celebrations in connection with the Somerville family have led me to add this article. The early history…
  • Welcome to Climpy

    December 3, 2024
    An Early Industry and a Beautiful Bing. The road from Forth to Climpy winds its way across a windswept moorland…
  • ash tree and ghost

    November 24, 2024
    The Carnwath correspondent of the Hamilton Advertiser seems to have had an unusual interest in all things uncanny and supernatural.…
  • November 24, 2024
    “Out of Date and Inadvisable from any Standpoint” A little ferry boat once plied the Clyde between the parishes of…
  • Carnwath Church illustration

    February 6, 2018
    The closure of Carnwath Church has prompted me to write a brief history of the Church. The church was built…
  • Wilstontown aerial shot

    June 4, 2017
    Wilsontown–the birthplace of Scotland’s Industrial Revolution. Wilsontown is not a place known to many people but it is the birthplace…