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LANARK , a royal, municipal and police burgh, and countySee also: town of See also: Lanarkshire, Scotland, See also: standing on high ground about See also: half a mile from the right See also: bank of the See also: Clyde, 31 M
.
S.E. of See also: Glasgow by the Caledonian railway
.
Pop
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(1901) 6440
.
It is
' I
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Minette (Weiler, See also: Alsace)
.
If
.
Kersantite (Neubrunn, Thuringia)
.
III
.
Vogesite (See also: Castle See also: Mountain, See also: Montana)
.
IV
.
Spessartite (Waldmichael, See also: Spessart)
.
V . Camptonie (Campton Falls) . VI . Monchiquite (Ria do Ouro, Serra de Tingua) . VII . Alnoite (Alpo, Sweden).a favouriteSee also: holiday resort, being the point from which. the falls of the Clyde are usually visited
.
The See also: principal buildings are the town See also: hall, the county buildings, the
See also: assembly rooms, occupying the site of an old Franciscan monastery, three hospitals, a convalescent home, the Smyllum orphanage and the See also: Queen See also: Victoria See also: jubilee fountain
.
The See also: industries include See also: cotton-spinning, See also: weaving, nail-making and oilworks, and there are frequent markets for cattle and See also: sheep
.
Lanark is a place of considerable antiquity
.
See also: Kenneth II. held a parliament here in 978, and it was sometimes the residence of the Scottish See also: kings, one of whom, See also: William the
See also: Lion (d
.
1214), granted it a charter
.
Several of the earlier exploits of William See also: Wallace were achieved in the neighbourhood
.
He burned the town and slew the See also: English See also: sheriff William Hezelrig
.
About I m
.
N.W. are Cartland Craigs, where See also: Mouse See also: Water runs through a precipitous red See also: sandstone See also: ravine, the sides of which are about 400 ft. high
.
The stream is crossed by a See also: bridge of single span, supposed to be See also: Roman, and by a three-arched bridge, designed by See also: Thomas
See also: Telford and erected in 1823
.
On the right bank, near this bridge, is the cave in which Wallace concealed himself after killing Hezelrig and which still bears his name
.
Lanark was the centre of much activity in the days of the See also: Covenanters
.
William Lithgow (1582-1645), the traveller, William Smellie (1697-1763), the obstetrician and Gavin See also: Hamilton (1730-1797), the painter, were
See also: born at Lanark
.
The town is one of the See also: Falkirk See also: district See also: group of See also: parliamentary burghs, the other constituents being See also: Airdrie, Hamilton, Falkirk and Linlithgow
.
New Lanark (pop
.
795), I M
.
S., is famous in connexion with the socialist experiments of Robert See also: Owen
.
The See also: village was founded by See also: David Dale (1739-1806) in 1785, with the support of See also: Sir See also: Richard See also: Arkwright, inventor of the spinning-See also: frame, who thought the spot might be made the Manchester of Scotland
.
In ten years four cotton mills wereSee also: running, employing nearly 1400 hands
.
They were sold in 1799 to a Manchester See also: company, who appointed Owen manager
.
In the same See also: year he married Dale's daughter
.
For many years the mills were successfully conducted, but See also: friction ultimately arose and Owen retired in 1828
.
The mills, however, are still carried on
.
There are several interesting places near Lanark
.
Braxfield, on the Clyde, gave the title of See also: Lord Braxfield to Robert Macqueen (1722-1799), who was born in the mansion and acquired on the bench the character of the Scottish Jeffreys
.
Robert See also: Baillie, the patriot who was executed for See also: conscience' See also: sake (1684), belonged to Jerviswood, an estate on the Mouse
.
See also: Lee
See also: House, the home of the Lockharts, is 3 m
.
N.W
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The old castle was largely rebuilt in the 19th century
.
It contains some See also: fine See also: tapestry and portraits, and the Lee See also: Penny-See also: familiar to readers of Sir Walter See also: Scott's See also: Talisman-which was brought from See also: Palestine in the 14th century by the Crusading knight, Sir See also: Simon See also: Lockhart
.
It is described as a cornelian encased in a See also: silver See also: coin
.
Craignethan Castle on the Nethan, a See also: left-See also: hand tributary joining the Clyde at Crossford, is said to be the See also: original of the " Tillietudlem
of Scott's Old Mortality
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