PETTINAIN – hamlet and parish in the upper ward of Lanarkshire.

The hamlet lies near the Clyde, 5 miles east-south-east of Lanark, and has a post office under Lanark, a small church, and a public school with capacity for 66 scholars. —The parish measures about 3 miles by 2½, and comprises 3900 acres. Real property in 1880-81, £456S. Pop. 360. The surface is partly very low flat land adjacent to the Clyde, and partly a gentle unequal acclivity up to a height of about 500 feet above the Clyde’s level. The only mansion is Sir Wyndham Anstruther’s seat of Westraw.

The Gazetteer of Scotland, by Rev John Wilson, 1882