At the end of Calderside Road, in the area of Basket, is the Basket Highway, or Chainlink Road. This ancient road has a junction right at the current East Kilbride Expressway, which splits into Puddock’s Lane, another old road with kerbstones still visible. If you’re looking for this location, easy access is from the layby […]
Category: Blantyre Places
The Basket Mound or ‘Tor’
Beside Basket Farm, just off the end of Calderside Road is the mysterious Basket Mound, or Basket “Tor”. This is undoubtably a man made mound of Earth which may have very ancient roots. Surprisingly, not a lot is actually known about this location, or recorded, even in National Archives. The mound is very out of […]
Intricate Walling on Forgotten Paths
On the lower slopes below the ruins of Craigneath Castle are a whole extensive network of old paths that linked Craigneath to the High Calder and Calderwood Glen. Some of these paths are still visible and without too much undergrowth. Others, not so much and very reclaimed by the woods and fallen trees to the […]
Old Park Road Limekiln
About midway up Sydes Brae, near the Auchentibber War memorial on the left hand side is a small path across the field. Adjacent to the fenced fields, the path joins from across the road from Auchentibber War memorial, all the way down to Earnock Road near to dykehead woodland. Old maps show that Park Rd, […]
Craigneath Bridges & Summer House
Calderwood estate was once dubbed ‘one of the loveliest of western glens, magnificent in its grouping of craggy heights, sprinkled with trees and with the amber-tinted Calder winding through the richly wooded and festooned valley’. It was opened to the public in the early 1900s under the ownership of the Scottish Cooperative Society, but the […]
The Quoiting Green & Gardens
The Quoiting Green was situated behind the old War Memorial at Auchentibber. The local Miners in the late 1890’s spent some time working stone and building ornamental gardens modelled on Italian Designs. The gardens turned out to be very impressive and featured as a beautiful backdrop to the sporting ground itself. The gardens were terraced, […]
Great Falls of the Calder
I went an excellent walk up the High Calder today and had the benefit of an accomplished guide in the form of Blantyre man, Jim Brown. In fact, we went to some places i have never been to before, and only read about previously. Right on the fringes of Blantyre and East Kilbride, in the […]