Coatbridge

Coatbridge
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File:Coatbridge coat arms.jpg Coatbridge coat of arms
[[file:Template:Location map Scotland North Lanarkshire|240px|Coatbridge is located in Template:Location map Scotland North Lanarkshire]]<div style="position: absolute; z-index: 2; top: %; left: %; height: 0; width: 0; margin: 0; padding: 0;"> [[File:Template:Location map Scotland North Lanarkshire|6x6px|Coatbridge|link=|alt=]] Coatbridge  Coatbridge shown within North Lanarkshire
Area	Template:Infobox UK place/area
Population	41,170 (2001 Census)
- Density	6,038 /sq mi (2,331 /km2)
OS grid reference	NS730651
- Edinburgh	33 mi (53 km) ENE
- London	341 mi (549 km) SSE
Council area	North Lanarkshire
Lieutenancy area	Lanarkshire
Country	Scotland
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	COATBRIDGE
Postcode district	ML5
Dialling code	01236
Police	Strathclyde
Fire	Strathclyde
Ambulance	Scottish
EU Parliament	Scotland
UK Parliament	Coatbridge, Chryston and Bellshill
Scottish Parliament	Coatbridge and Chryston
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Coatbridge (Template:Lang-sco, Template:Lang-gd) is a town in North Lanarkshire, Scotland, about 10 miles (16 km) east of Glasgow city centre, set in the central Lowlands. The town, with neighbouring Airdrie, is part of the Greater Glasgow urban area. It was awarded the trophy for the Best Small City in Scotland in September 2009 in the Beautiful Scotland environmental and horticultural competition. The first settlement of the area stretches back to the Stone Age era. Foundations of the town can be traced back to the 12th century when the area was gifted by Royal Charter to the Monks of Newbattle Abbey by Malcolm IV. It was during the last years of the 18th century that the area developed from a loose collection of hamlets into the town of Coatbridge. The town's development and growth has been intimately connected with the technological advances of the industrial revolution, and in particular with the hot blast process. Coatbridge was a major Scottish centre for iron works and coal mining during the 19th century and in this period Coatbridge was described as “the industrial heartland of Scotland” and the "Iron Burgh". Coatbridge also had a notorious reputation for air pollution and the worst excesses of industry. By the time of the 1920s however coal seams were exhausted and the iron industry in Coatbridge was in rapid terminal decline. After the Great Depression the Gartsherrie ironwork was the last remaining iron works in the town.

More info

See Wikipedia:Coatbridge

Summerlee blast furnaces in start of the 20th century Coatbridge. The present day Summerlee Heritage Park is sited here.

See also

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Further reading

• Dillon, Des (2007) Monks, Luath Press Ltd
• Drummond, Peter and James Smith (1982) Coatbridge: Three Centuries of Change, Monkland Library Services
• Drummond, Peter (1985) The Population of Monklands in the 1980s, Monkland Library Services Dept
• Miller, Andrew (1864) The Rise of Coatbridge and the Surrounding Neighbourhood, Glasgow
• Miller, Thomas Roland (1958) The Monkland Tradition, Thomas Nelson and Sons
• Moir, Helen (2001) Coatbridge (Images of Scotland), The History Press; ISBN 0-7524-2132-8
• Van Helden, Oliver (2000) Old Coatbridge, Stenlake Publishing

External links

• North Lanarkshire Council
• Coatbridge Museum
• Out of The Darkness Evening Times, 27 October 2008 - Article on Coatbridge's industrial past