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, Scotland.

Summary

About 10 minutes walk north west of Hamilton town centre, the area contains many of the more important institutions in the town, including: the

county buildings, Hamilton Retail Park (including a Sainsbury's), Holy Cross High School, the private institution

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, a large Morrisons supermarket, Hamilton Park Racecourse, a

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complex, New Douglas Park (home of Hamilton Academical F.C.), Hamilton Sheriff Court, Hamilton Water Palace (swimming pool), Hamilton West Parish Church, Peacock Cross, and many bars and restaurants and takeaways such as Equi's Ice Cream parlour dating from the 1920s (located beside the former home of

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). The Hamilton campus of the

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, previously the buildings of Bell College until 2007, were located in the area from 1972 until 2018 when The buildings remained in use as part of the UWS facilities until 2018, when a replacement at the ''Hamilton International Technology Park'' (actually situated outside the town, closer to Blantyre) was completed. By then, plans had been submitted for the intended redevelopment of the Almada Street site into a mix of office, retail and residential use and a park area, with the working name ''Hamilton Green urban village''. Since 2005, one of the local

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ary constituencies has been named Rutherglen and Hamilton West, however only a small part of the 'Hamilton West' area falls within its boundaries with the majority, including all the public amenities listed above, coming under the other constituency covering the town: Lanark and Hamilton East.

Transport

Hamilton West railway station serves the area. Regular trains go to ,

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, Larkhall,

Lanark Lanark ( ; ; ) is a town in South Lanarkshire, Scotland, located 20 kilometres to the south-east of Hamilton, South Lanarkshire, Hamilton. The town lies on the River Clyde, at its confluence with Mouse Water. In 2016, the town had a populatio ...

and

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. The area is also well served by buses to other areas in Hamilton, as well as East Kilbride and Glasgow.

References

External links

Hamilton Water PalacePowerleague HamiltonHamilton Sheriff CourtSouth Lanarkshire Council headquartersEqui's ice cream Hamilton
Neighbourhoods in South Lanarkshire Hamilton, South Lanarkshire {{SouthLanarkshire-geo-stub