West Auchenbeg
Farmstead (Period Unassigned)
Site Name West Auchenbeg
Classification Farmstead (Period Unassigned)
Alternative Name(s) North Auchenbeg; Auchansbeg
Canmore ID 74499
Site Number NS73NE 13
NGR NS 7964 3580
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
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- Council South Lanarkshire
- Parish Lesmahagow
- Former Region Strathclyde
- Former District Clydesdale
- Former County Lanarkshire
NS73NE 13 7964 3580
North Auchenbeg is depicted as roofed and with a well, on the 1st edition of the OS 6-inch map (Lanarkshire, 1860-4, sheet xxxvii). The Ordnance Survey Name Book describes these buildings as 'A thatched farmsteading one storey in tolerable repair. Property of J Alston Esq'. (ONB).
The current OS 1:10000 scale map (1980) shows the farmstead as unroofed.
Information from RCAHMS (DE), September 2001Ordnance Survey Name Book 1864
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 and East Auchansbeg (NS73NE 12) 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
