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South Lanarkshire, Scotland

Blantyre,
then and now

Get to know the town through its streets, its people and the places worth a visit.

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White cottages and exterior stairs along the courtyard at Shuttle Row
Shuttle Row, Low Blantyre. Billy McCrorie, 2015. Display copy resized. Source · CC BY-SA 2.0

Find your way around

Parks & walks

At Redlees, paths pass a former quarry pond and the remains of a wartime anti-aircraft battery. For a riverside walk, follow the Rotten Calder through Greenhall, Millheugh and Barnhill.

Redlees visitor information
Explore the Rotten Calder reserve

Getting around

Blantyre railway station is on Station Road in Low Blantyre. Check departures and station accessibility with National Rail, or plan a journey by bus with Traveline Scotland.

Blantyre station and departures
Plan a bus journey

Places to visit

Start at Shuttle Row, built to house workers at the Blantyre cotton mills. It is where David Livingstone was born in 1813 and where the museum now tells his story.

David Livingstone Birthplace visitor information

Stories from Blantyre

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An aerial view of Blantyre with the River Clyde winding past the town
Blantyre and the River Clyde. Thomas Nugent, 2018. Thumbnail framed with a crop. Source · CC BY-SA 2.0

Blantyre and the Clyde

Start with the town itself, from the old parish centre at High Blantyre to the mill village beside the Clyde.

Whitewashed mill workers’ housing with outside staircases
Nineteenth-century mill housing at Blantyre. kim traynor, 2015. Thumbnail framed with a crop. Source · CC BY-SA 2.0

Blantyre’s cotton mills

Discover the works on the Clyde and the mill village where David Livingstone grew up and worked.

An 1877 engraving of the colliery pits, with chimneys and people in the foreground
General view of the High Blantyre colliery pits. The Pictorial World staff, 1877. Thumbnail framed with a crop. Source · Public Domain Mark 1.0

The 1877 mining disaster

Read what happened at High Blantyre Colliery and how the town has remembered those who died.

Surviving stone walls of Blantyre Priory among trees
Remains of Blantyre Priory. WeeHolly, 2013. Thumbnail framed with a crop. Source · CC BY-SA 4.0

Blantyre Priory

Find out what survives of the medieval priory across the Clyde from Bothwell Castle.

Blantyre station platforms, railway tracks and a lamp in 1961
Blantyre Railway Station, 1961. Ben Brooksbank, 1961. Thumbnail framed with a crop. Source · CC BY-SA 2.0

Blantyre railway station

Follow the railway’s arrival in Low Blantyre and see how the station looked in 1961.

Illustration of St Joseph’s Catholic Church, Blantyre
Illustration of St Joseph’s Catholic Church. ImageGen adaptation of Leslie Barrie’s 2014 photograph. Source · CC BY-SA 2.0

How Blantyre.biz came to be

Why we brought the address back into use, how we gathered the material and what we hope to add next.

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