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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 ...
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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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]
When the 26th (Cameronian) Regiment of Foot, and 90th Perthshire Light Infantry amalgamated to form The Cameronians (Scottish Rifles) in 1881 under the Cardwell-Childers reforms of the British Armed Forces, seven pre-existent militia and volunteer battalions of Lanarkshire and Dumfries and Galloway were integrated into the structure of the regiment.
Lanark (/ ˈ l æ n ər k / LAN-ərk; Scottish Gaelic: Lannraig [2] [ˈl̪ˠaun̪ˠɾɪkʲ]; Scots: Lanrik [3]) is a town in South Lanarkshire, Scotland, located 20 kilometres to the south-east of Hamilton. The town lies on the River Clyde, at its confluence with Mouse Water. In 2016, the town had a population of 9,050.
Cleghorn is a village in Lanark in South Lanarkshire, Scotland. [1] Cleghorn Village is around 2 + 1 ⁄ 4 miles (3.6 km) north-east of Lanark town, [2] and is a small close community with about 250–300 residents and under 50 houses. The village is in the catchment area of Lanark Grammar School.