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Wishaw is one of the twenty-one wards used to elect members of the North Lanarkshire Council. [2] It elects four councillors and covers the town centre of Wishaw plus the neighbourhoods to its south and east including Gowkthrapple, Netherton, Overtown, Pather and Waterloo, with a population of 17,974 in 2019; [3] created in 2007, its territory remained almost unchanged in a 2017 national ...
Law Hospital, on the outskirts of Law Village, closed in 2001, with all patients being sent to Wishaw General Hospital, located in the Craigneuk area of Wishaw. There was an ambulance station on the site of the hospital but since 2001, the Scottish Ambulance Service opened a new one next door to Huws Gray builder's merchant on Wildman Road ...
Gowkthrapple is a small neighbourhood of Wishaw, Scotland, situated around 3 ⁄ 4 miles (1.2 km) from the town centre. The name "Gowkthrapple" is a Scots compound word made up of "gowk", meaning "idiot" or "cuckoo" and "thrapple", meaning "throat" or "strangle".
Wishaw (/ ˈ w i ʃ ɔː / ⓘ; Scots: Wishae or Wisha / ˈ w i ʃ i / ⓘ; Scottish Gaelic: Camas Neachdain) is a large town in North Lanarkshire, Scotland, on the edge of the Clyde Valley, 15 miles (24 km) south-east of Glasgow city centre. [3] The Burgh of Wishaw was formed in 1855 within Lanarkshire.
Motherwell, Wishaw and Carluke is a constituency of the House of Commons in the UK Parliament. [1] Further to the completion of the 2023 Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies , it was first contested at the 2024 general election .
Netherton is a southerly suburb of Wishaw, which can be entered from Netherton Road, which runs easterly from Pickering's Corner to the Cherry Tree public house, spanning the full length of the suburb. Alternatively, Netherton can also be entered from Netherton Street, which runs from the Heathery roundabout to Netherton Cross.
Wishaw House was a large mansion located in Wishaw, Scotland. Once the family seat of the Belhavens and Hamilton family , the mansion was abandoned by the 20th century and was demolished, now nothing more than a ruin in the woodland by the South Calder Water .