Pather is a small suburb of Wishaw

Wishaw

Wishaw is a large town and former burgh in North Lanarkshire, Scotland. It is on the edge of the Clyde Valley, 15 miles south-east of Glasgow....

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 and was initially built as a council estate.
Pather can be entered from Caledonian Road through either Lomond Drive or Tarbert Avenue.

Street names

All the streets in Pather are named after Scottish Lochs except Hospital Road, which is an offshoot of the road that used to pass the now demolished Wishaw Hospital. Examples of this include Tarbert Avenue, Lomond Drive, Ness Street, Etive Street and Sunart Street.

Education

There is a non-denominational primary school within the housing estate, called Thornlie Primary. The majority of the children from the area attend this school or the Roman Catholic Primary School, Saint Thomas' Primary which is a five minute walk from the scheme.

Shops, services and facilities

Pather has a post office, two small shops, and a hairdresser. There is also a shop on the outskirts of the scheme which the locally referred to as "Chokkar's" after its previous owner, however, the shop has been under new management for several years. The shops in the scheme are locally known as "Top Shop" and "Middle Shop" in regards to their location in the scheme. There is also a small of arcade of shops across Caledonian road near the Lomond Drive entrance to Pather. The shop there is locally known as "Kenny's", also named after a previous owner. The arcade has contained other businesses in the past such as a cafe and furniture store.

The area between Pather and Gowkthrapple used to be taken up by Piano farm, but unfortunately the farm is no longer there; instead, there are empty fields.

From Pather, it is only a 5 minute walk into the town centre and main shopping area of Wishaw. A fifteen minute walk will take you from Pather along piano roads (locally called the "Auld Roads") to Overtown or Gowkthrapple. Pather is also only a few minutes away from Wishaw Sports Centre.

A large park area, complete with football goals and children's playparks, stretches from Caledonian Road to the "Old Roads" - the complete length of the estate. There is also a BMX bike park at the top end of the scheme.

Transport

Pather is separated from the main part of Wishaw and Gowkthrapple

Gowkthrapple (Wishaw)

Gowkthrapple is a small suburb of Wishaw, Scotland. Gowkthrapple can be entered off of the Castlehill Road which runs the length of the estate. Formerly an industrial area, associated with the Pather Iron and Steel Works and then Smith's clock factory, which opened in 1951...

 by the two railway lines, one of which is the main West Coast line between Glasgow and London and the other is the Lanark line which runs between Lanark and Milngavie and Dalmuir, which run parallel along the length of the scheme proper. It is also serviced by First Glasgow

First Glasgow

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 buses which run a service to Glasgow

Glasgow

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Religion

Pather has a Roman Catholic Chapel situated at the entrance to the Scheme on Tarbert Avenue, however, the Scheme has many religions based within it.