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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 ...
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.
View of the Coatbridge winter skyline. Coatbridge is a town which grew out of a series of 18th-century hamlets on the road between Airdrie and Glasgow. During the 19th century these hamlets grew into the modern-day town of Coatbridge. A number of these hamlets constitute the neighbourhoods of Coatbridge.
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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.
The Coatbridge accent has been categorised as generally less usage of the Scots tongue and the tendency to stress the 'a' vowel differently, e.g. stair (sterr), hair (herr), fair (ferr) etc. and this is attributed to the impact of successive influxes of Irish immigrants, particularly from Ulster.
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").
The district covered parts of four former districts from the historic county of Lanarkshire, all of which were abolished at the same time: [3] Airdrie Burgh; Coatbridge Burgh; Seventh District (Shottskirk electoral division, rest went to Motherwell) Ninth District (Old Monkland and New Monkland electoral divisions, rest split between Glasgow ...