BOTHWELL, a town and parish of Lanarkshire, Scotland, on the right bank of the Clyde, 9m. E.S.E. of Glasgow by the L. N. E. R. and the L. M. S. R., and a residential quarter of Glasgow. Pop. of parish (1931) 6o,660. The choir of the Gothic church of 1398 (restored at the end of the 19th century) forms a portion of the parish church. Joanna Baillie, the poetess, was born in the manse. On June 22, 1679, at the battle of Bothwell bridge between the Royalists, under the duke of Monmouth, and the Covenanters, the latter lost soo killed and i,000 prisoners. Near this bridge, on "Bothwell bank," are the picturesque Gothic ruins of Bothwell castle that once belonged to James Hamilton of Bothwellhaugh (fl. 1566-8o), the assassin of the regent Moray; and near the present farmhouse the South Calder is spanned by a Roman bridge.