Elsrickle
| Elsrickle | |||
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| Coordinates | 55 ° 41 ′ N , 3 ° 30 ′ W | ||
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| Post town | BIGGAR | ||
| ZIP code section | ML12 | ||
| prefix | 01899 | ||
| Part of the country | Scotland | ||
| Council area | South Lanarkshire | ||
| British Parliament | Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale | ||
| Scottish Parliament | Clydesdale | ||
Elsrickle , formerly Elridgehill , is a village on the eastern border of the Scottish Council Area South Lanarkshire or the traditional county of Lanarkshire . It is located around 16 kilometers east of Lanark and 32 kilometers southwest of central Edinburgh on the southern flank of the Pentland Hills .
history
The remains of a historic hill fort can be found on the top of the 303 m high Castle Hills south of Elsrickle . In his geographic encyclopedia, Francis Groome positively singled out Elsrickle from the mass of Scottish villages in the 1880s. At that time there was a village school and a church of the Free Church there .
In 1961 114 people lived in Elsrickle. Ten years later the population had dropped to 107. In the following decades the number of inhabitants rose almost steadily.
traffic
The A721 ( Kirkdean - Bellshill ) forms the main thoroughfare of Elsrickles and connects the village directly to the main road network. To the east, the A72 ( Hamilton - Galashiels ) and the A702 (Edinburgh - St John's Town of Dalry ) are within a few kilometers .
Individual evidence
- ^ Entry in the Gazetteer for Scotland
- ↑ Entry on Hillfort in Canmore, the database of Historic Environment Scotland (English)
- ↑ Ellridgehill of Elsrickle : FH Groome (ed.): Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland: A Survey of Scottish Topography, Statistical, Biographical and Historical , Publishing Works Grange, Edinburgh, 1882-1885.
- ^ Information in the Gazetteer for Scotland
