About the town » Shotts, North Lanarkshire, Scotland, Great Britain

Shotts is a small rural town in North Lanarkshire, Scotland. It is located almost halfway between Glasgow (21 miles) and Edinburgh (29 miles). At the 2001 census, the population was 8,235. A local story has Shotts being named after the legendary giant Bertram de Shotts, though toponymists give the Anglo-Saxon derived 'sceots' (steep slopes) as the real source of the name.Shotts is the home of the 2015 world champion pipe band, Shotts and Dykehead Caledonia Pipe Band.