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BLANTYRE (Gaelic, " the warm retreat")

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Originally appearing in Volume V04, Page 43 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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BLANTYRE (Gaelic, " the warm
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retreat")  , a
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parish of
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Lanarkshire,
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Scotland . Pop . (1901) 14,145 . The parish lies a few
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miles
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south-
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east of
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Glasgow, and contains High
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Blantyre (pop . 2521), Blantyre
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Works (or
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Low Blantyre), Stonefield and several villages . The whole
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district is
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rich in
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coal, the
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mining of which is extensively carried on . Blantyre Works (pop . 1683) was the birthplace of
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David
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Livingstone (1813–1873) and his
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brother
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Charles (1821-1873), who as lads were both employed as piecers in a
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local
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cotton-
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mill . The scanty remains of Blantyre Priory, founded towards the
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close of the 13th
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century, stand on the
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left
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bank of the
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Clyde, almost opposite the beautiful ruins of
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Bothwell
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Castle . High Blantyre and Blantyre Works are connected with Glasgow by the Caledonian railway . Stonefield (pop . 7288), the most populous
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place in
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BLASPHEMY 43 the parish, entirely occupied with mining, lies between High Blantyre and Blantyre Works .

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Calderwood Castle on Rotten
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Calder
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Water, near High Blantyre, is situated amid picturesque scenery .

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