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A significant event in Airdrie's history was the 1695 passing of a special act of Parliament, the ' Airdrie Fairs and Market Act 1695 (c. 94) [7]: 17 in the Scottish Parliament allowing Robert Hamilton of Airdrie to hold four fairs yearly and a weekly market in the town of 'Airdry'. This helped develop Airdrie from a 'farm town' into a thriving ...
Holy Ascension Monastery, a Greek Old Calenderist monastery located in Bearsville. [56] Holy Cross Monastery, an Anglican monastery located in West Park. [57] Holy Trinity Monastery, an Eastern Orthodox monastery located in Jordanville. [58] Mount Saviour Monastery, a Benedictine monastery located in Pine City. [59]
Upload another image Towers Road, Wester Moffat Hospital, Wester Moffat House 55°52′07″N 3°56′27″W / 55.868736°N 3.940944°W / 55.868736; -3.940944 (Towers Road, Wester Moffat Hospital, Wester Moffat House) Category B 20930 Upload Photo 2-10 (Even Nos) Bank Street, New Cross Corner 55°51′59″N 3°58′50″W / 55.866404°N 3.980686°W / 55.866404; -3. ...
Mastiles Lane, near Malham and Kilnsey in North Yorkshire, was a Roman marching road and later an important route for the Cistercian monks leading sheep from Fountains Abbey to summer pasture on higher ground. Also known as the Old Monks' Road, [1] it is now a Dales walking track.
The name of "Monklands" originated in the grant of lands in the area to the monks of the Cistercian Abbey of Newbattle, Midlothian in 1162. From the seventeenth century the area was formed into the two parishes of New Monkland and Old Monkland. [4] Apart from the two burghs of Airdrie and Coatbridge, the area included the following settlements:
The town lies 88 metres (288 ft) above sea level, 9 miles (14.5 km) east of Glasgow, 6 miles (10 km) south of Cumbernauld and 2 miles (3 km) west of Airdrie. Although Coatbridge has no major river running through it, the North Calder Water runs east–west to the south and the now defunct Monkland Canal used to run straight through the centre ...
Airdrie South is one of the twenty-one wards used to elect members of the North Lanarkshire Council. [2] It elects four councillors, with its territory unaffected by a national boundary review in 2017 – as its name suggests, this covers southern parts of Airdrie (including Brownsburn, Craigneuk, Moffat Mills, Petersburn and South Cairnhill neighbourhoods) plus the outlying settlements of ...
Airdrie had long been served by the Monkland Railways, allied to the North British Railway, and the Caledonian had reached Coatbridge from Glasgow with the Rutherglen and Coatbridge (R&C) line. The importance of Airdrie and the mineral and manufacturing districts south and east of the town compelled the Caledonian to build a line to it.