Carluke
South Lanarkshire

Rankin Memorial Clock, High Street, Carluke
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Situated on a high plateau at an elevation of 198m (650 feet), Carluke overlooks the middle reaches of the River Clyde in South Lanarkshire. It lies on the Jock's Burn, 6 miles (10 km) northwest of Lanark and was in 1662 chartered as a royal burgh also know as Kirkstyle. A Roman road passed this way and a number of tower houses were built in the locality. Carluke developed in the 18th, 19th and 20th Centuries in association with corn milling, cotton weaving, coal mining and the manufacture of bricks, glass, confectionery and jam. Miltonhead, 1 mile (2 km) to the southwest, was the birthplace in 1721 of the military surveyor General William Roy and Milton Lockhart, 2 miles (3 km) to the west, was the home of John Lockhart, the biographer of Sir Walter Scott. In 1987 the remains of Milton Lockhart House were transported to Japan and re-erected near Tokyo. Peter Kid, one of Carluke's 17th Century Covenanting ministers, was imprisoned on the Bass Rock.

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