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The action at Lanark was an attack at Lanark, Scotland during the First War of Scottish Independence in May 1297. The Scotsman William Wallace led an uprising against the English and killed the Sheriff of Lanark, William Heselrig. The attack was not an isolated incident, but rather saw Wallace joining in with uprisings taking place across Scotland.
After the action at Lanark, William Wallace joined forces with William Douglas the Hardy and led a raid on the city of Scone.He and his men forced William de Ormesby, the English-appointed Justice of Scotland, to flee, and took control.
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A key leader in the Scottish Wars of Independence, he is known to have first "drawn his sword to free his native land" at Lanark in 1297, killing the English sheriff Haselrig. [ 18 ] [ 19 ] An 8-foot statue of Wallace sits on St Nicholas Church at the town cross dating back to 1817 which was sculpted by Carluke-born Robert Forrest .
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We might be able to keep this article with some work, but I suggest moving it to "Action at Lanark" or something similar. PatGallacher ( talk ) 11:06, 26 June 2009 (UTC) [ reply ] This article...
His body was quartered and displayed on the roofs of the tolbooths at Lanark, Jedburgh, Ayr and Glasgow; a young boy, William Leechman, subsequently took down the remains from the Lanark Tolbooth and properly interred them. [8] [9] A separate, more secure, prison building was erected to the west of the tolbooth in 1714. [4]
The county took its name from the original county town at Lanark, which had been the site of the first Parliament of Scotland under Kenneth II in 978. [ 4 ] Local government was reformed in 1975 under the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1973 , which replaced Scotland's counties, burghs and landward districts with a two-tier structure of upper ...