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COATBRIDGE

This article appears in Volume V06, Page 603 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: CLI-COM
COATBRIDGE , a municipal and police
burgh
 , having the privileges of a royal
burgh
 , of
Lanarkshire
 ,
Scotland
 . Pop. (1891) 15,212; (1901) 36,991. It is situated on the Monkland Canal, 8 m. E. of Glasgow, with stations on the Caledonian and North British railways. Until about 1825 it was only a
village
 , but since then its vast stores of coal and iron have been developed, and it is now the centre of the iron trade of
Scotland
 . Its prosperity was largely due to the ironmaster James Baird (q.v.), who erected as many as sixteen blast-furnaces in the immediate neighbourhood between 183o and 1842. The
industries
  of Coat-
bridge
  produce malleable iron, boilers, tubes, wire, tinplates and railway wagons, tiles, fire-bricks and fire-clay goods. There are two public parks in the town, and its public buildings include a theatre, a technical school and mining college, hospitals, and the
academy
  and Baird Institute at Gartsherrie.
Janet
  Hamilton, the poetess (1795-1873), spent most of her life at Langloannow a part of Coatbridgeand a fountain has been erected to her memory near the cottage in which she lived. For parliamentary purposes the town, which became a municipal burgh in 1885, is included in the north-west division of
Lanarkshire
 . About 4 M. west by
south
  lies the mining town of Baillieston (pop. 3784), with a station on the Caledonian railway. It has numerous collieries, a nursery and market garden.


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