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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 ...
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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.
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.
Whifflet (Scots: The Whufflit, Scottish Gaelic: Magh na Cruithneachd) [1] is an area of the town of Coatbridge, Scotland, which once formed its own distinctive village.It is referred to, locally, as "The Whifflet" (and pronounced "wheef-lat" or "whiff-lat").
[17] [18] In 2008 Coatbridge was subject of an hour-long RTÉ documentary regarding the Irish culture of the town. [19] Perhaps the most obvious link with between Coatbridge and Ireland are the numerous Celtic F.C. supporters' clubs operating in the area. Phil Coles' Celtic supporters' club holds a legendary place in the folklore of Coatbridge ...
Summerlee Museum of Scottish Industrial Life is an industrial and social history museum in Coatbridge, North Lanarkshire, Scotland. It is situated on the site of the Victorian Summerlee Iron Works and the former Hydrocon Crane factory. The main Hydrocon factory building became the museum’s exhibition hall but it has been substantially changed ...
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 ]