Parish of Symington
including the village of Symington.
SYMINGTON, village and parish in upper ward of Lanarkshire. The village stands adjacent to the Clyde, 7 miles south-east of Carstairs Junction, and has a post office under Biggar, a renovated very old church, and a public school with accommodation for 71 scholars. — The parish measures 3 miles by nearly l½ and comprises 3504 acres. Real property in 18S80-81, £5913. Pop. 462. The surface includes a low tract of arable land along the Clyde, and rises thence in high pastoral land to the summit of Tinto Mountain. Chief antiquities are vestiges of a camp near the village, and remains of a castle on the slope of Tinto. The Gazetteer of Scotland, by Rev John Wilson, 1882.
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