East Auchenbeg
Cultivation Remains (Period Unassigned), Farmstead (Period Unassigned)
Site Name East Auchenbeg
Classification Cultivation Remains (Period Unassigned), Farmstead (Period Unassigned)
Alternative Name(s) South Auchenbeg; Auchansbeg
Canmore ID 72671
Site Number NS73NE 12
NGR NS 7987 3543
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
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- Council South Lanarkshire
- Parish Lesmahagow
- Former Region Strathclyde
- Former District Clydesdale
- Former County Lanarkshire
NS73NE 12 7987 3543
South Auchenbeg farmstead is depicted as a roofed L-shaped building on the the 1st edition of the OS 6-inch map (Lanarkshire, 1860-4, sheet xxxvii).The Ordnance Survey Name Book describes this as 'A farmsteading one storey, thatched in good repair. Property of J Alston Esq'.
The current OS 1:10000 scale map (1980) shows the farmstead as unroofed.
Ordnance Survey Name Book 1860-4
NS 799 354 area. A range of agricultural and industrial structures and features was surveyed at 1:500 scale, prior to destruction by open cast mining.
The farms of West (NS73NE 13) and East Auchansbeg were surveyed - the former an undeveloped, linear Lowland fermtoun with recorded occupation since 1695; the latter an early 19th century improved L-plan steading with associated landscaping features.
Sponsor: deptartment of Physical Planning, Strathclyde Regional Council
C Swanson 1990
