Forth

14°COvercast

• Today: 18° / 10° · 82% rain
• Tomorrow: 17° / 9° · Overcast

Source: WeatherAPI

Sunrise 06:39Sunset 19:42

13h 4m of daylight today

Next bank holiday: St Andrew’s Day, Mon 30 Nov

Source: sunrise-sunset.org · gov.uk

9US AQI · Good

Main pollutant: fine particles (PM2.5)

Source: WAQI · West Lothian Linlithgow High Street 2, United Kingdom

253 reported road collisions (2024)

114 killed or seriously injured · 379 casualties · 7.6 collisions per 10,000 residents

Source: DfT reported road collisions (STATS19)

22 food businesses within 2 miles

• 15 passed
• 2 need improvement

Source: Food Standards Agency

• Nearest station: Fauldhouse (6.6 km)
• 14 bus stops within ~½ mile

Source: OpenStreetMap, National Rail

£186,771 average▲ 6.4% YoY

Across South Lanarkshire · to 2026-06

Source: UK House Price Index (HM Land Registry)

• Cheapest petrol: 166.9p · Asda (10.6 km)
• Cheapest diesel: 189.9p · Asda (10.6 km)

5 stations within ~8 miles

Source: CMA fuel price scheme

• Sports centres1
• Sports pitches11
• Playgrounds4

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

334,330 residents in South Lanarkshire

• Under 16: 17%
• 16–64: 62%
• 65+: 21%

Source: ONS mid-year estimates (local authority)

Around the average in Scotland

10% of neighbourhoods are in Scotland’s most deprived 10%; 20% in the most deprived 20%

Source: Scottish Index of Multiple Deprivation 2020

Pamela Nash

Labour

Motherwell, Wishaw and Carluke

Source: UK Parliament

Labour / Liberal Democrat / Independent coalition

• Lab 24
• Con 5
• LD 3
• Grn 1
• Ref 3
• Oth 25

Source: Open Council Data UK (CC BY-SA)

• Schools1
• Pharmacies1
• Parks & greens2
• Restaurants & cafés2

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

11,345 active business enterprises in the area

Source: ONS UK Business Counts (2025)

17 jobs advertised · £23,530 avg

e.g. Catering Assistant - Task Team- Mobile Work- 102362 - 486314, Tutor (ESOL) - 102409 - 486729, COMM ENT 5462 G1 - Cleaning Supervisor/Cleaner - Forth Primary School (600252/600251) - 5462-480157813

Source: Adzuna

£798 median full-time weekly pay

2.7% of residents aged 16–64 claim unemployment-related benefits

£23,682 disposable income per head (2024)

Source: ONS / Nomis (claimant count · ASHE) · ONS regional GDHI

100% low-carbon electricity

Wind 78% · Nuclear 22% · Solar 1%

0 gCO₂/kWh · very low intensity

Latest estimate for South Scotland · National Grid ESO

• Life satisfaction7.4
• Feeling worthwhile7.7
• Happiness yesterday7.4
• Anxiety yesterday (lower is better)3.3

Average rating out of 10 · ONS personal well-being 2022-23

Open UK Parliament petitions most signed in Motherwell, Wishaw and Carluke:

• Do not ban social media for under 16s360 local signatures · 217,501 nationwide
• Make a public animal abuser register & automatically ban ownership298 local signatures · 242,705 nationwide
• Ban anyone convicted of terrorism offences from standing for public office201 local signatures · 205,058 nationwide
• Change surrogacy law to recognise intended parents from birth201 local signatures · 112,809 nationwide
• Review the evidence and fund the addition of SMA to the Newborn Screening Test166 local signatures · 151,287 nationwide

Source: petition.parliament.uk · as of 2026-08-06

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  Forth, South Lanarkshire · 0.2 km

  Forth is a village in South Lanarkshire, Scotland with a population of around 3,500 people. It is situated near Lanark, and stands at around 950 feet above sea level. It is on the A706 road between Lanark and Whitburn…

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  Forth Wanderers F.C. · 0.7 km

  Forth Wanderers Football Club are a Scottish football club based in the village of Forth, South Lanarkshire. Formed in 1904 they compete in the West of Scotland League Second Division and play in red strips with a whi…

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  Wilsontown railway station · 1.4 km

  Wilsontown railway station was the passenger terminus of the three and three quarter mile long Wilsontown Branch that ran from a bay platform at Auchengray railway station and served the nearby village of Wilsontown i…

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  Wilsontown Ironworks · 1.9 km

  The ruins of the Wilsontown Ironworks are located near the village of Forth in Lanarkshire in Scotland, approximately 23 miles (37 km) to the south east of Glasgow. The ironworks played an important role in the Indust…

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  Climpy · 2.0 km

  Climpy is settlement and locality in South Lanarkshire. It is north-west of Forth and south of Fauldhouse.

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  Black Law Wind Farm · 3.1 km

  Black Law Wind Farm is an 88 turbine wind farm in South Lanarkshire, Scotland. It is located near Climpy in South Lanarkshire and has been built on an old opencast coalmine site which was completely restored to shallo…

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