The city of Hamilton in South Lanarkshire, Central Scotland was the first county city of the old county of Lanarkshire. It is now the executive centre of South Lanarkshire Council. It has got a long and rich history, going back virtually to the Middle Ages. Hamilton is situated about 10 miles south of Glasgow and forty miles west of Edinburgh, on the fringe of the main north / south highway, the M74.

The city of Hamilton, originally known as Cadzow, is now so named after the Duke of Hamilton who owned the land on which it is found. The previous Duke of Arran built many lavish structures in and around Hamilton but his previous grandiose palace needed to be demolished due to subsidence and fire damage in the early twentieth century. His impressive hunting lodge still remains in the grounds of what’s now Chaterherault Country Park – named after Hamilton’s French twin city – and the perspectives from the front of this building on a clear day are breathtaking.

The Duke of Hamilton’s shrine, in which he was originally buried in a traditional Egyptian sarcophagus, is also still standing. The superb echo in this building – the longest in the United Kingdom – has led straight to many attempts to purchase it over time from personal customers in the U. S. . The worry that the building could never be reconstructed to keep its echo has guaranteed it remains where it belongs.

Hamilton is served by 2 railway stations, Hamilton Central and Hamilton West, as well as Hamilton Bus Station, found opposite to the Central Station. From Hamilton Bus Station, buses can take visitors as far as the south coast of Britain . The city’s nearest airfield is Glasgow Global airfield.

Strathclyde Country Park, the principal such park in Scotland, is found between Hamilton and Motherwell. There’s a funfair in the park, hostels and cafes as well as a water sports’ centre for the entertainment of all the family. Hamilton Academicals, the city’s soccer (football) team, are presently playing in the Scottish Premier League and their ground, New Douglas Park, was only built in 2001, their previous ground having been raised 7 years earlier and turned in to a retail park.

Hamilton City Centre hosts branches of the majority of the huge stores and a lot of them are in the enclosed mall. Hamilton has a substantial number of bars, bars and restaurants to cater for most tastes, and even though it is never considered as a holiday maker destination, Hamilton can offer a serious amount of entertainment on a family day out.