The RED HOSE RACE - an annual event in Carnwath, South Lanarkshire, Scotland - the oldest road race in the world.

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Red Hose Race is a prestigious annual event at Carnwath in South Lanarkshire. Hose was the Scots word for stockings or long socks. Each year a foot race is run at Carnwath and the local Laird must provide a pair of red stockings as the prize. In olden days the name of the winner was cried from the Mercat Cross in Edinburgh. The origin of the race goes back to 1508 when James IV gave a Charter of the Lands of Carnwath to John, third Lord Somerville, in the following terms: "Paying thence pair of hose containing half an all of English cloth at the feast of St John the Baptist, called Midsummer, upon the ground of the said barony, to the man running most quickly from the east end of the town of Carnwath to the Cross called Cawlo "

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Location: Carnwath, South Lanarkshire, Scotland
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