Braemar is the second coldest low lying place in the UK, after the village of Leadhills, with a mean temperature of 6. 81 ° C.

The Leadhills and Wanlockhead Railway, a gauge railway in South Lanarkshire, Scotland, is laid on the trackbed of the former Leadhills and Wanlockhead Branch of the Caledonian Railway which led off the main line between and Glasgow at Elvanfoot.

The " preserved " section runs from Leadhills for about towards Wanlockhead and is the highest adhesion railway in the UK.

Leadhills is a village in South Lanarkshire, Scotland, 5¾ miles WSW of Elvanfoot.

Leadhills Golf Course is the highest in Scotland.

In terms of the local climate profile, given its elevated position and latitude, Leadhills is amongst the coldest places in the British Isles.

In fact, according to the most recent 30 year climate period of 1981-2010 Leadhills is the coldest village in the UK ( of those with weather stations ) with an annual mean temperature of making it slightly colder than the commonly regarded coldest settlement of Braemar, which had an annual average temperature of in this period.

Wanlockhead is a village in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland nestling in the Lowther Hills one mile south of Leadhills at the head of the Mennock Pass, which forms part of the Southern Uplands.

The Leadhills Miners ' Library, built in 1741 and also known as the Allan Ramsay Library, or The Leadhills Reading Society, houses an extensive antiquarian book collection, local relics, records and minerals.

Leadhills has numerous holiday homes available to rent for short periods of time, as well at a local Motel ; The Hopetoun Arms ( Also the local pub ); and the B & B, which are situated on Main Street and Ramsay Road.

At Monteponi the crystals encrust cavities in glistening granular galena ; and from Leadhills, in Scotland, pseudomorphs of anglesite after galena are known.

Trains are currently diesel worked with the locomotive propelling the train up hill away from Leadhills.

Movements within the main station site at Leadhills are controlled from the reconstructed signal box which contains the original lever frame from Arrochar and Tarbet signal box.

Seams of tiny cerussite crystals and crusts of contrasting, powder-blue caledonite round out this very rich lead ore specimen from an old Leadhills mine.

A branch from there ran through Leadhills to Wanlockhead and operated until 1939.

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* http :// www. madestuff. co. uk-Original handmade arts and crafts from the village of Leadhills

Despite a branch railway ( see Leadhills & Wanlockhead Railway ), also the highest in Scotland, serving the village from 1901 to 1939, lead mining declined in the 20th century and finished in the 1950s.

William Symington was from Leadhills, however he lived and worked In Wanlockhead.

In the same year he was appointed manager for the Scots Mining Company at Leadhills, where the Scots Mining Company House was built for him in 1736.

The Leadhills & Wanlockhead Railway runs at weekends only, and at Christmas sees the Santa Express, which includes a ride on the train, a visit to Santa down the Lead mine, and a story read by Mrs Kringle in the Museum of Lead Mining, Wanlockhead.

Many of these items are available at the Leadhills Craft fair, which often runs over a weekend at Christmas, and Doors Open Day, which occurs across the Lanark area.

Braid was appointed surgeon to Lord Hopetoun's mines at Leadhills, Lanarkshire, in 1816 ; and in 1825 he set up in private practice at Dumfries.

Part of the route has been reused by the Leadhills & Wanlockhead Railway.

Symington was born in Leadhills, South Lanarkshire, Scotland to a family he described as being " respectable but not wealthy.

" His father worked as a practical mechanic at the Leadhills mines.

The Grouse Moors cover in excess of around Leadhills and are considered to be amongst the finest in Scotland.

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