Yieldshields is a small village in South Lanarkshire, located close to the town of Carluke. A large wind farm was installed at the north end of Thorn road at the Kingshill plantation. In 2024 several new houses were under construction in the village.
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Carluke Rovers Football Club are a Scottish football club based in Carluke, South Lanarkshire. Nicknamed The Rovers, they were formed in 1887, although documented evidence shows a club called Milton Rovers, Carluke's original name, were playing matches during 1886, and are based in the John Cumming Stadium. The club compete in the West of Scotland League Fourth Division. The team are managed by Thomas Devine along with Mark McRoberts, Peter Kane, Tony Boyce, Scott Mathieson & Cieran Henderson
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Carluke High School is a secondary school in Carluke, South Lanarkshire, Scotland. As of 2019 its head teacher is Steve Duffy. As of 2007 it had 1,226 students. The school was rebuilt on the same site, beginning in 2005. The majority of the existing building was demolished. The Physical Education Block remains standing which now forms part of Carluke Leisure Centre.
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Carluke is a town that lies in the heart of the Lanarkshire countryside in South Lanarkshire, Scotland, 4+3⁄4 miles northwest of Lanark and 4+1⁄4 mi southeast of Wishaw.
Carluke is largely a commuter town, with a variety of small stores and supermarkets available at its centre. The surrounding villages of Braidwood, Forth, Kilncadzow, and Law are supported by the various shops and services available in Carluke.
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Kilncadzow is a small village in rural Lanarkshire, Scotland. It lies two miles southeast of Carluke and three miles north of Lanark on the A721 road, part of the old road from Glasgow to Peebles.
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The A73 is a former trunk route in Scotland, that connects the M74 at Abington, Jct. 13 to the M80 motorway at Cumbernauld. Running for approximately 37 miles, it passes through the towns of Lanark, Carluke, Newmains, Chapelhall and Airdrie. Formerly a main route connecting the north of Scotland to England it has less importance these days, and is now merely a local feeder to the two motorways with which it connects.
The sections between Abington & Carluke and Cumbernauld & Newhouse were the first sections to be downgraded from a trunk route to a secondary route, following the construction of the shorter M73 further west, which connected the M74 at Jct. 4. This motorway removed the need for vehicles from the north to use the A73 to reach England.
Following this downgrading, the remaining section of A73 between Carluke and Newhouse remained a trunk route for vehicles travelling between Glasgow and Peebles. For this reason, two new sections of dual carriageway were built between Bellside & Newmains and Bogside & Law, as well as a new bypass for the town centre of Carluke, where the trunk route continues as the A721.
Eventually though, the M74 was completed and it became easier for vehicles travelling from Peebles to Glasgow, to use the A702 trunk route instead, which also joins the M74 at Abington.
For this reason, the entire length of the A73 was downgraded to a secondary route, although it is still heavily trafficked, especially between Lanark and the M8 at Newhouse.