Welcome to the Official Carluke Guide.

The aim of this guide is to give the casual web-surfer an insight into the town of Carluke.

Carluke is in South Lanarkshire, Scotland. It has been here since around 700 AD, where it existed as a hub for farmers and fruit growers from the Clyde Valley. Before that it was originally a Roman settlement, until the encamped Romans were, according to local historians and geophysicists, killed by a freak combination of lightning storms, which were more frequent in those days, and pressure release from Carluke's methane producing peat bogs. The resulting explosion, combined with the underground mineral deposits and caves left Carluke as a town of two halves. This can be seen by the now exposed fissure and stream, known locally as Jock's Burn.

Jock's Burn

For the film literate surfer, Carluke is six miles north from Lanark. Lanark should be familiar to anyone who has seen the film Braveheart with Mel Gibson. It is a reasonable supposition that the real William Wallace would have marched, with his men, through Carluke to get to Lanark.

Carluke is twenty-five miles South-East of Glasgow, down the M74 motorway, and around forty miles South-West of Edinburgh. It is situated at the top of the Clyde Valley and due to it's mediaeval translation St. Luke's-on-the-Hill is thought to be a possible resting place of the Holy Grail.

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