History
The Clan Lamont were driven from their homeland to settle in Carnwath. They later became Covenanters.
In 1630, the Carnwath estate, owned by the Earl of Mar was purchased by Sir Robert Dalzell, later to become Lord Dalzell. In 1639, his son, the 2nd Lord Dalzell and also named Robert, was elevated to become the Earl of Carnwath. The title was forfeit in 1716 when the 5th Lord, Robert Dalzell became attainted due to his Jacobitism support but was restored in 1826 and finally became extinct upon the death of the 13th Earl in 1941.
Writer, spy and politician, George Lockhart, inherited the Carnwath estates from his father, George Lockhart of the Lockharts of Lee, who had purchased them in 1681.
The Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland (1882–1885) said of the village: "Long a dingy and disagreeable place, it has been greatly improved".
There is a Gothic church that dates from 1798, directly abutting the former tiny church of 1424.
In 1845 the area became a civil parish.
Carnwath railway station, originally part of the Caledonian Railway, later the London, Midland and Scottish Railway and finally the Scottish Region of British Railways, was closed as port of the Beeching Axe in the 1960s.
Famous people from Carnwath include author and critic, Robert Anderson, footballer, Tom Brownlee and the Ordnance Gazetteer remarks that: "the minor poet, James Graeme (1749-72)" was a resident of the locality.
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