Grotte de Carfin

La grotte de Lourdes de Carfin est un sanctuaire catholique romain en Écosse dédié à Notre-Dame de Lourdes, créé au début du XXe siècle. La « grotte de Carfin », comme est appelé le sanctuaire localement, est l'idée originale du père, plus tard le chanoine Thomas Nimmo Taylor (décédé en 1963), curé de la paroisse Saint-François-Xavier dans le petit village minier de Carfin, qui se trouve 2,3 km à l'est de Motherwell, dans l'ouest de l'Écosse. Après un voyage au principal sanctuaire marial de France à Lourdes, la vision du chanoine Taylor est de construire un mémorial religieux en l'honneur de Notre-Dame sur le modèle de la grotte de Massabielle. Réaliser cette vision est devenu l'œuvre de sa vie. Depuis son ouverture au début des années 1920, la "grotte" a attiré des centaines de milliers de pèlerins et ses environs ont été modifiés et rehaussés de riches symboles et bâtiments catholiques. Le sanctuaire de la grotte propose une saison de pèlerinage avec des processions dominicales, des chapelets, des messes en plein air et des événements dédiés aux jours de fête qui se déroulent chaque année de début mai à fin septembre. La conférence épiscopale écossaise reconnaît le lieu comme sanctuaire national.

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Carfin railway station

Carfin railway station is a railway station serving both Carfin and Newarthill in North Lanarkshire, Scotland. It is 14 miles (22 km) southeast of Glasgow Central railway station on the Shotts Line between Glasgow and Edinburgh. It contains two platforms; one for trains in the direction of Glasgow, and the other for trains to Edinburgh Waverley via Shotts. Like the following stop on the Shotts Line, Holytown, the location of the station is ambiguous. It is located on the border between Carfin and Newarthill, for much of its recent history closer to a housing estate in the latter. It is now bordered immediately on both sides by housing developments.

Carfin Grotto

Carfin Lourdes Grotto is a Catholic shrine in Scotland dedicated to Our Lady of Lourdes and created in the early twentieth century. The "Carfin Grotto", as the shrine is locally termed, was the brainchild of Canon Thomas N. Taylor (died 1963), parish priest of St. Francis Xavier's Parish in the small, mining village of Carfin, which lies two miles east of Motherwell, in the West of Scotland. Following a trip to France's principal Marian shrine at Lourdes, Taylor's vision was to build a religious memorial in honour of the Virgin Mary based on the template of the Grotto of Massabielle. To realize this vision became his life's work. Since its opening in the early 1920s, the Grotto has attracted pilgrims in the hundreds of thousands and its environs have been modified and enhanced with rich Catholic symbols and buildings. The grotto shrine offers a pilgrimage season with Sunday processions, rosaries, outdoor Masses and dedicated feast day events which run annually from early May until late September.

Brannock High School

Brannock High School is a non-denominational, co-educational comprehensive secondary school in Newarthill, North Lanarkshire, Scotland. It is situated on Loanhead Road.

Carfin

Carfin (Scottish Gaelic: An Càrn Fionn, meaning the White Cairn) is a village in North Lanarkshire in the central lowlands of Scotland, situated to the north-east of Motherwell. Most local amenities are shared with the adjacent villages of Holytown, Newarthill and New Stevenston which have a combined population of around 20,000 across the four localities.

Dalziel Park

Dalziel Park is an area located between the villages of Carfin, Cleland and Newarthill in North Lanarkshire, Scotland. Other nearby settlements include the large town of Motherwell and the new town of Ravenscraig. The area consists of a residential estate, a sports facility, a golf course and a clubhouse. It is also used as the home venue for the local rugby team Dalziel, as well as the training ground for the local professional football team Motherwell.