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Pont's "Nether Warde of Clyds-dail" map c. 1654 which depicts the hamlets of Kirkwood, Dunpelder, Wheatflet, Dunbath, Gartshary in the modern day Coatbridge area Map of the Coatbridge area dated 1858. The Monklands area inherited its name after the area was granted to the Cistercian monks of Newbattle Abbey [16] by King Malcolm IV in 1162.
During the 19th century these hamlets grew into the modern-day town of Coatbridge. A number of these hamlets constitute the neighbourhoods of Coatbridge. Overlaid on the older hamlets are modern-day council estates built as a part of programme of social housing construction in the 1930s and 1950s.
The earliest evidence of human habitation in the Coatbridge area can be traced back a crannog in Drumpellier Loch (as it is known locally but persistently referred to as Lochend Loch on every map known), part of Drumpellier Country Park. A crannog was an Iron Age dwelling house built on an artificial island. People continued to live in Crannogs ...
In 2005, a 500-year-old map that identified the new world as “America” sold for a whopping $1 million at auction. These early maps, which are are prized for their historical significance and ...
The Ordnance Survey Great Britain County Series maps were produced from the 1840s to the 1890s by the Ordnance Survey, with revisions published until the 1940s. The series mapped the counties of Great Britain at both a six inch and twenty-five inch scale with accompanying acreage and land use information.
Name Location Date Listed Grid Ref. [note 1] Geo-coordinates Notes LB Number [note 2] Image Kirkshaws Road, Kirkstyle Cottages Category B 23017: 59-65 (Odd Nos) Main Street And 1 Church Street
Whifflet, originally a separate village, became a 'colliery' (coal town) whilst also supplying tinplate, iron and digging the coal for the 'foundry fires' around Coatbridge. [ 4 ] Coatbridge was, historically, a centre of mining activity and supported some of the largest coal mining operations from the 1810s to the 1930s. [ 5 ]
Carnbroe is a neighbourhood in Coatbridge, North Lanarkshire, Scotland. The village is situated by the North Calder Water and was formerly the site of an ironworks. [1]