Parish of Lamington & Wandel
including the villages of Lamington and Wandel.
LAMINGTON, village and parish in upper ward of Lanarkshire. The village stands on burn of its own name adjacent to the Clyde, 10 miles south-south-east of Carstairs Junction, is a decayed ancient place, and has a post office, with money order department, under Biggar, a railway station, a church which retained till recent times the old ‘ cutty stool ‘ and ‘jouggs,’ and a public school with about 50 scholars. —The parish measures about 7¾ miles by 3¾ , and comprises 12,820 acres. Real property in 1880-81, £7921. Pop. 316. The surface includes some fertile 316. alluvial lands, but is mostly hilly and bleak. Lamington barony belonged to the wife of Sir William Wallace; and Lamington Tower on it, once a splendid ancient edifice, is now a small ruin not far from the village. Other antiquities are Caledonian works on Arbory Hill, three Roman camps at Whitehill, and a number of other camps and a moat in other parts. The Gazetteer of Scotland, by Rev John Wilson, 1882.
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