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 Coatbridge—and 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 .