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Town of Lanark
- Lanarkshire covered much of the basin of the River Clyde, and took its name from the town of Lanark, which is near the geographic centre of the county and served as the first county town.
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Lanarkshire, also called the County of Lanark (Scottish Gaelic: Siorrachd Lannraig; Scots: Lanrikshire), is a historic county, lieutenancy area and registration county in the Central Lowlands and Southern Uplands of Scotland.
Lanark was a royal burgh from 1140 to 1975, and was historically the county town of Lanarkshire, though in modern times this title belongs to Hamilton. Notable landmarks nearby include New Lanark , the Corra Linn and the site of Lanark Castle .
Lanarkshire, historic county of south-central Scotland, roughly coinciding with the basin of the River Clyde. It is bounded to the south by the historic county of Dumfriesshire, to the east by Peeblesshire, Midlothian, and West Lothian, to the north by Stirlingshire and Dunbartonshire, and to the.
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Lanarkshire (Siorrachd Lannraig in Gaelic), also called the County of Lanark, is a county of Scotland.
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Lanarkshire, with both Glasgow and rich coal mines, was a powerhouse of the Industrial Revolution as much as Lancashirewas, and remains an eminent industrial centre even now that the coal has declined. Glasgow, on the Clyde, is one of Britain's greatest cities, built up by the industrial revolution, transatlantic trade and the shipyards. Glasgow wa...
Lanarkshire may be described as embracing the valley of the Clyde, whence its alternative name, Clydesdale. In addition to the gradual descent from the high land in the south, it is also characterized by a gentle slope towards both banks of the river. The northern end of Lanarkshire is wholly taken up with Glasgow and its suburbs, spreading over th...
At an early period Lanarkshire was inhabited by a tribe known as the Damnonii, who may or may not have been the same tribe as the Dumnonii or Damnonii who inhabited Devon and Cornwall. The Damnonii of the Clyde had their territory divided by the Antonine Wall cast up between the Forth and Clyde (remains of which are found in the parish of Cadder), ...
Chatelherault Country Park, near Hamilton, including Cadzow CastleClyde ValleyBooks
1. Hamilton, W: Description of the Sheriffdoms of Lanark and Renfrew, Maitland Club (1831) 2. Irving C V and Murray A, The Upper Ward of Lanarkshire (Glasgow, 1864) 3. The Clydesdale Stud Book (Glasgow) 4. Cowan W A, History of Lanark (Lanark, 1867) 5. Extracts from the Records of the Burgh of Lanark (Glasgow, 1893)
Lanarkshire, also known as the County of Lanark, was one of the 34 traditional counties into which Scotland was divided for administrative purposes. At its southern end it extended to the remote upland areas beyond Abington and around Leadhills.
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Lanark (Cymric llanerch, `a forest glade'), a town and a parish in the Upper Ward of Lanarkshire. The capital of the county, and a royal, parliamentary, and police burgh, the town is built on a south-westward slope, 500 to 750 feet above sea-level, within ½ mile of the Clyde's right bank, by rail being 4 ¼ miles WSW of Carstairs Junction, 33 ...
