 Lesmahgow Property For Sale & Rent
Lesmahgow
situated in Lanarkshire is a village some five miles west south
west of Lanark, it stands on the west bank of the small
river Nethan, by-passed by
the A74 trunk route. Evidence of prehistoric dwellers has been found at the Creamery Brae
quarry nearby.
Benedictine monks travelled from Kelso
and
established a priory on the lands here granted by David I in 1144, and the monks
of Lesmahagow became well known as pioneers of fruit-growing in the fertile
Clyde valley. After the
Reformation, this became a centre for the
Covenanters.
David Steel, a farmer in
the district at Skellyhill. was shot in 1686, and a monument there
commemorates him. At Auchingelloch another monument commemorates other Covenanters'
sufferings.
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