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Strathclyde Country Park covers 4km² providing space for leisure and sporting activities. Strathclyde Loch Roman Bathhouse was only created in the 1970s, partly covering the excavation team site of the mining village of Bothwellhaugh which had from 1970s existed since the 1880s. ’s mining heritage still leaves its mark on the landscape today, which is testament to the hard work, ingenuity and sacrifice of People have been living in the Clyde and Avon Valley the miners. A local myth is that the ruins of the village for thousands of years with each generation leaving are still submerged below the loch today, however its mark or influence on the landscape. The River From approximately 142AD all structures were removed before the creation of Clyde has been revered since the earliest times. The to 165AD this bathhouse the loch. Celtic people that lived here two thousand years ago served the soldiers of the named the river Clut. This related to one of their Bothwellhaugh Roman goddesses, Clota, whose name comes from the root Fort. The site was excavated CLYDE BRIDGE 4. “clau” meaning to wash, giving her the name “The in the 1970s by a team led Washer” or “She who Cleanses”. by Jim Walker and Lawrence Keppie and was later dismantled and rebuilt in JAPANESE GARDENS 6. its current location in 1980. The Japanese Gardens were originally created by Jim & Lawrence The site has been restored in Lady Sybil Hamilton who lived in partnership with Phoenix Futures, Dalzell House and was a pioneering Countryside Rangers and CAVLP Heritage. horticulturist. The gardens have been renovated by Phoenix Futures. It is said the gardens ROMAN FORT 2. The Old Clyde Bridge in ruins were inspired by a trip Lady Though not much can be seen on the surface today Built between 1928 and 1932 the Clyde Bridge Sybil and Lord Gavin took this is the location of a 2nd Century AD Roman Fort, connects and Hamilton. It replaced the to Japan. You can visit built during the Emperor Antonine’s occupation of earlier Hamilton Bridge, which in turn had replaced Lady Sybil and Lord Gavin’s Scotland. It would have been the base for about The Old Clyde Bridge. The Old Clyde Bridge was built beautiful mausoleum at St 500 Roman troops and was connected to other in 1780 with the assistance of James Watt and John Patrick’s Graveyard, along Roman forts in Lanarkshire by the Roman roads Smeaton (the “father of civil engineering”). The old with Lord Gavin’s temple which he built as a memorial that still criss-cross the landscape today. The fort bridge was washed away in 1807 during a flood, Watt Lady Sybil Hamilton of to his beloved wife. was excavated in the 1930s by J.M. Davidson and said the bridge was “founded on a muddy bottom”, Dalzell (Image courtesy of again in 1960s by G. Maxwell. which ultimately may have been its downfall. the Hamilton Advertiser)

DALZELL HOUSE & PHOENIX ST PATRICK’S 7. COVENANTERS OAK 9. VIEW 11. GRAVEYARD Dalzell House was St Patrick’s may date back to the early Medieval originally built by the period, some 1000 years ago, when this area was Dalzell Family in the Area of William ruled by the Kingdom of Strathclyde. Early Christian 15th Century AD, as Roy’s Lowland churches were often built in places associated with a lordly, defended map showing holy wells, as seen here with nearby St Patrick’s residence, which the landscape Well. St Patrick’s Kirk was demolished in 1798 and can still be seen in around Dalzell the stone used to build the Dalzell mausoleum. the central part of c.1750s Volunteers from Clydesdale Community Initiatives the building. Later have helped to clean up St Patrick’s Graveyard and Gardens at Dalzell House additions were made record many previously unknown stones. through the centuries, Phoenix View was an overgrown area of woodland leaving us with one of the most important historical which was cleared up through the hard work of buildings in North Lanarkshire. Close to the house Phoenix Futures. A local walker dubbed the location is potentially the oldest living thing in Lanarkshire, “Phoenix View” for its views over the Clyde Valley the Covenanters Oak. This tree got its name from which are now accessible thanks to the group. In the services that took place under its branches celebration, a seat with the Phoenix Futures logo was during the Covenanting period of the late 1600s. placed in the area. The trees that lead down to the river were part of the original designed landscape and were mapped by William Roy in the 1750’s. HA-HA WALL 8. BARON’S ORCHARD 10. “Old Parish Cemetery” by Jack Sloan c.1980s Invoice from a Clyde BARON’S HAUGH 12. Valley based fruit preserver from 1945 Baron’s Haugh has been described as “an urban wildlife gem” and is managed by RSPB Scotland. The Hamilton Local RSPB Members’ Group were “Ha Ha” at Dalzell by Jack Phoenix Futures Once part of the instrumental in persuading the RSPB to acquire this Sloan c.1980s restoring the ha-ha wall Dalzell Estate, the once industrial landscape and converting it into a The parkland around Dalzell House is one of the most Baron’s Orchard has nature reserve in 1981. The reserve is an example important designed landscapes in Scotland, with many been replanted and of the ways in which our industrial heritage can be of its original features still surviving, including its maintained by the RSPB enhanced to provide habitats to support local wildlife ha-ha. A ha-ha is a wall which would provide a clear and local volunteers. The and parkland for the community to enjoy. view across fields, without “spoiling” the view like a orchard could potentially be Medieval in origin, traditional wall. To do this the ha-ha was sunk into the originally being called “Baron’s Yaird” and adjoining ground with the garden level on top and a ditch on the the house of Baron Nisbet of Dalzell. The Clyde other side to prevent livestock wandering through the Valley was once the fruit basket of Scotland and local gardens. The name is said to come from the surprise organisations such as the Clyde Valley Orchards are Special thanks to the Hamilton Town House you get upon noticing the wall. This feature has been striving to restore and develop this important part Library, the Hamilton Advertiser and artist Jack restored by Phoenix Futures and local volunteers. of the rural landscape economy. Sloan for the use of their images.