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Carstairs

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Carstairs

Two distinct settlements in South Lanarkshire unitary authority, Scotland, about 32 km/20 mi southeast of Hamilton. They consist of the small service centre of Carstairs village, and Carstairs Junction, 2 km/1mi mi to the southwest, where the Edinburgh railway line diverges from the Carlisle to Glasgow route; population (2001) Carstairs 700; Carstairs Junction 800. A large state prison is located nearby. Sand and gravel quarrying is a major industry of the area.



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Well, my name is Christabel Carstairs; and my father was that Colonel Carstairs you've probably heard of, who made the famous Carstairs Collection of Roman coins.
The Wisdom Of Father Brown by Chesterton, Gilbert K. View in context
But if you think I am going to let the Union Jack go down and down eternally, like the bottomless well, down into the blackness of the bottomless pit, down in defeat and derision, amid the jeers of the very Jews who have sucked us dry--no I won't, and that's flat; not if the Chancellor were blackmailed by twenty millionaires with their gutter rags, not if the Prime Minister married twenty Yankee Jewesses, not if Woodville and Carstairs had shares in twenty swindling mines.
The Man Who Knew Too Much by Chesterton, Gilbert K. View in context
He had been engaged to Miss Edith Woodley, of Carstairs, but the engagement had been broken off by mutual consent some months before, and there was no sign that it had left any very profound feeling behind it.
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