Welcome to the Lanark web site!

Lanark is a very old town and has been a great community for well over a thousand years, for reasons that were as important then as they are today.

Back in 1140, Lanark was made a Royal Burgh by King David 1 which allowed it to become an early manufacturing and marketing town. This has carried on to the present day and our web site will guide you through all the businesses in the town, describing what they do and how you can find them.

Lanark is a town of many attractions and we hope to tell you all about them. Whether it's our ancient customs, our great sporting facilities or our attractive hidden secrets, we will introduce you to them all.

A great community is not just about having a pleasant place to live, it is about people getting together to enjoy themselves. Lanark has a multitude of organisations all keen to include you. We will tell you what is on and where, again giving you contact details whenever we can.

A good community offers its young people a good education. Lanark is lucky to possess five highly respected schools. Lanark Grammar school was founded in 1183 and makes it one of the oldest in Britain.

The same applies to Churches. Once again Lanark can boast of around eight establishments catering for the spiritual needs of the inhabitants. We hope to have inputs from Churches and schools to show what they have to offer.

Visitors to the town will enjoy finding out where to eat and drink and where to stay. This section of the site will offer comprehensive information in all these areas.

Finally a town as old as Lanark has some remarkable stories to tell. Whether it is history, myths, or legends there will be regular contributions to entertain as well as teach. The web site is yours. We hope you will use it, enjoy it and feed information in to it!

Happy surfing!