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Extract from the Lanark and New Lanark Travel Guides:
The neat little market town of
LANARK
is an old and distinguished burgh, sitting in the purple hills high above the River Clyde, its rooftops and spires visible for miles around. Beyond the
world's oldest bell
, cast in 1130 and visible in the Georgian Church of St Nicholas, there's little to see in town unless you around during the lively
Lanimer
celebrations in early June, one of Scotland's oldest ceremonies of riding the marches or boundaries, which goes back to 1140. Most people head straight on to the village of
NEW LANARK
(
), a mile below the main town on Braxfie...
read the whole Lanark and New Lanark Travel Guides...
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