Parish of Carluke

including the town of Carluke and villages of Braidwood, Kilncadzow, Law, and Yieldshields.

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CARLUKE, town and parish in upper ward of Lanarkshire. The town stands near Caledonian Railway, adjacent to picturesque ravine, amid a fine tabular tract, 19½ miles east-south-east of Glasgow. It dates from old times, went long into decay, and rose in modern times into well-built, pleasant, prosperous condition. It has a head post office with all departments, a railway station, 2 banking offices, 3 hotels, good waterworks, opened in January 1880; Established, Free, United Presbyterian, Original Secession, Evangelical Union, and Roman Catholic churches, all modern or quite recent, an evangelistic hall of 1879 ; a public school of 1877, for 600 scholars ; and a quondam parochial school, then converted into an infant school ; and it conducts much business in connection with a rich surrounding mineral field. Pop. 3867. — The parish contains also the villages of Braidwood, Law, Kilcadzow, and Yieldshields. Its length is 8 miles ; its greatest breadth 4½ miles; its area 15,345 acres. Real property in 1880-81, £48,911. Pop. 8552. The southwestern boundary is all traced by the Clyde, and the interior is traversed by little affluents along deep ravines. The tracts adjacent to the Clyde are low, rich lands, either alluvial or argillaceous, largely covered with orchards and woods ; the central tracts are plateau, averagely about 450 feet high, varied by roundish hills, and mostly under the plough ; and the north-eastern tracts are chiefly ascending, bleak, barren moor. Mauldslie Castle and Milton Lockhart are chief residences ; and Hallbar, a square tower in a romantic dell, is the principal antiquity. An Established church of 1880, and a Free church of 1879, are in Law. 11 schools are in the parish, and have accommodation for 1315 scholars. The Gazetteer of Scotland, by Rev John Wilson, 1882.