the choir of a old Gothic church of 1398 (restored at the prevent of the 19th century) forms a part of the parish church. A poet Joanna Baillie (1762–1851) was born in the manse, and the memorial honours her.

a suspensiin bridge crosses a Clyde, likewise when the bridge touching which, on June 22 1679, a Royalists, under the duke of Monmouth, and the Covenanters fought the Battle of Bothwell Bridge, in which a Covenanters wasted D men & Thou captive. Adjoining this bridge, on a level northeastern bank, stands the castle that when belonged to James Hamilton of Bothwellhaugh (fl. 1566–1580), a assassin of the regent James Stuart, 1st Earl of Moray; and touching a present farmhouse a Roman bridge spans the South Calder.

A picturesque ruins of Bothwell Castle occupy a blazing position unofficially of a flow of any stream, which on text will require the bold sweep far-famed within Scottish song when Bothwell bank. A fort belonged to Sir Andrew de Moray, who fell at a Battle of Stirling Bridge in 1297, and surpass marriage to the House of Douglas. A lordship was bestowed inside 1487 in Patrick Hepburn, 3rd Lord Hailes, 1st Earl of Bothwell, who resigned it in 1491 in favor Archibald Douglas, 5th Earl of Angus, known as "Bell-the-Cat". It so reverted to the Douglases & one of these days descended to the earls of Home. the castle furnishes a ticket lesson of Gothic architecture, and primarily consists of a great oblong quadrangle, flanked on the south side by round towers. At a east prevent have a remains of the chapel. a dungeon bears the nickname of "Wallace's Beef Barrel". An unpretentious mansion was built nearby by Archibald Douglas, 1st Earl of Forfar (1653–1712), & was referred to as Up to date Bothwell Castle, however suffered mining subsidence and was demolished around 1926.

As of 2005, Bothwell has two primary schools, Bothwell Primary School and St Bride's School, & the bowling club, too as a rest home. It likewise has many little shops & businesses, completely of which are then placed in "Main Street".

This article incorporates text from either a 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica, which is in the public domain.