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The old monks' road was via Cliftonhill (an area now in neighbouring Coatbridge), Airdrie House (now the site of Monklands Hospital), Aitchison Street, High Street, Hallcraig Street, Flowerhill Street and Colliertree Road. The first houses in Airdrie were built along this road.
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The name of "Monklands" originated in the grant of lands in the area to the monks of the Cistercian Abbey of Newbattle, Midlothian in 1162. From the seventeenth century the area was formed into the two parishes of New Monkland and Old Monkland. [4] Apart from the two burghs of Airdrie and Coatbridge, the area included the following settlements:
The monks mined coal and farmed the land until the time of the reformation when the land was taken from them and given to private landowners. In 1641, the parish of Monklands was divided between New Monkland (present day Airdrie) and Old Monkland (present day Coatbridge). [18]
Monklands Hospital aerial view circa 1980. Collectively, Airdrie, Coatbridge, and their surrounding villages were once referred to as Monklands.Monklands District Council was the local government district until the abolition of the two-tier local government system and creation of unitary authorities in 1996 with the passing of the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1973.
New Monkland (present-day Airdrie, North Lanarkshire) Old Monkland (present-day Coatbridge). Monklands may now refer to: Monklands (district) that was formerly (1975–96) a local government district in the Strathclyde region of Scotland Monklands Hospital in the area; Monklands East (UK Parliament constituency), 1983 to 1997
The Ballochney Railway was an early railway built near Airdrie, North Lanarkshire, Scotland.It was intended primarily to carry minerals from coal and ironstone pits, and stone quarries, in the area immediately north and east of Airdrie, to market, predominantly over the adjoining Monkland and Kirkintilloch Railway.
Mastiles Lane, near Malham and Kilnsey in North Yorkshire, was a Roman marching road and later an important route for the Cistercian monks leading sheep from Fountains Abbey to summer pasture on higher ground. Also known as the Old Monks' Road, [1] it is now a Dales walking track.