Rigside
Rigside is a small village in South Lanarkshire, Scotland, about 5 miles (8 kilometres) from the town of Lanark, and less than 1 mi (1.6 km) from Douglas Water. It lies on the A70 road to Ayr, and has approximately 800 inhabitants.
Rigside is a former mining village. The village has one shop a takeaway cafe and public house as well as a doctors surgery which dispenses prescriptions. The village has a very limited public transport link so most of the villagers have access to a car. The village has a nursery and primary school both located on Muirfoot Road next to the recently upgraded play park and skate park.
The houses in the village are heated in order by ASHP, coal, oil, and LPG. There is no mains gas in the village.
There is a mixture of both private and council owned houses which are being upgraded to ASHP from solid fuel.Currently South Lanarkshire Council are demolishing the older 4 in a block style of housing which has a very low demand rate.
There is broadband in the village (up to 8 Mbit/s) and high speed fiber optic broadband (up to 89mbit from BT and other providers is now available. (April 2017)
