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Cadzow Oaks – Strathclyde Loch loop from Larkhall

Cadzow Oaks – Strathclyde Loch loop from Larkhall

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Cadzow Oaks – Strathclyde Loch loop from Larkhall

02:18

32.6km

370m

Gravel riding

Moderate gravel ride. Good fitness required. Mostly paved surfaces. Suitable for all skill levels. The starting point of the route is accessible with public transport.

Last updated: March 22, 2026

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Includes a segment in which cycling is not permitted

After 18.2 km for 56 m

Waypoints

Start point

Train Station

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4.71 km

View of the Valley in Chatelherault Country Park

Highlight • Viewpoint

If you do the full circuit plus the lower trail, it's about 9 miles. Some good challenging sections

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5.95 km

Cadzow Oaks

Highlight • Natural Monument

The Cadzow Oaks are around 700 years old. They were planted at the time of Robert the Bruce!
Today they are twisted and mostly hollow, they are still very much alive though and support a wide range of animal and plant life.

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6.98 km

Chatelherault Country Park

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Chatelherault hosts a great wee cross race every year as part of the SLLC Series, superb course and really well run.

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9.35 km

Avon Water

Lake

14.6 km

Strathclyde Loch

Highlight • Trail

Easy riding. Best time to go would be sunrise.

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18.7 km

Clyde Riverside Pathways

Highlight (Segment) • Cycleway

Can be bumpy on cx/ gravel bike bit manageable and fun Great views and feels a lot more remote than is

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22.5 km

Adders Gill Wood

Forest

26.7 km

Cambusnethan Priory

Highlight • Castle

Cambusnethan House, or Cambusnethan Priory, in North Lanarkshire, Scotland, was designed by James Gillespie Graham and completed in 1820. It is generally regarded as being the best remaining example of a Graham-built country house in the quasi-ecclesiastical style of the Gothic revival. It was rented for a short number of years in the early 1960s as an architects office for the team who built the 60s part of Livingston, Scotland. Later it was used as a hotel and restaurant and "mediaeval banqueting hall", the last use being tenuously linked with William Finnemund, the 12th century, Laird of Cambusnethan.

There was originally a Norman tower house near the site of the present building, and this was replaced by a manor house during the 17th century. The manor house burned down in March 1816, and the present house was commissioned and built in 1820.

Recent photo
The Priory was built for the Lockhart family of Castlehill, their coat of arms being carved above the main entrance and etched in every balustrade of the main staircase inside. The arms represents a casket, heart and lock and derives from the tradition that the ancestors of this family carried Robert the Bruce's heart back from the holy land. The nearby Cambusnethan Manse (now Elaina Nursing Home, Netherton) was also the birthplace of John Gibson Lockhart, Sir Walter Scott's biographer and later son in law.

There are few remaining examples of early 19th-century Neo-Gothic mansions remaining in Scotland as many were demolished in the late 1950s and 1960s. Cambusnethan House is a notable building in its own right as a good example of the neo-Gothic style, and also because so few buildings of this type still remain.

Nineteenth-century view.
The house is two and three storeys high with turrets at each corner, a three-storey bow in the west elevation and a massive square porch. Characteristically, the house was very ornately decorated with a variety of architectural details; castellated roof lines, scrolled pinnacles, narrow pointed windows and drip moulds, and various cornices, besides carved motifs and decorated chimneys. Some of the ornate pinnacles have been removed in the interest of safety, and there had been at a recent extension to the lower ground floor across a sunken passage across the house with a roof flush with ground level.

Use of the building ended in 1984, and the building has fallen prey to vandalism and fire. The building is listed as At Risk by the Scottish Civic Trust but is already in derelict condition.

Text taken from:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cambusnethan_House

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