Ordnance gazetteer of Scotland

LANARKSHIRE
Abington; while in the lower district they form such
an extensive network as to be beyond particular men-
tion. ' For the purposes of the Road Act of 1878, the
upper and lower wards and the two divisions of the
middle ward are treated as if each was a separate county.
Railway communication was first opened up for a con-
siderable part of the county by the opening of the
Caledonian railway in 1847; and now the lower part of
the county, with its extensive mineral traffic, is accom-
modated by lines far too numerous to be particularly
mentioned. Main lines pass from Glasgow by Coat-
bridge and Bathgate to Edinburgh (North British), and
by Shotts and Midcalder to Edinburgh (Caledonian);
southward up the valley of the Clyde on the NE and E
side to Clydes Burn, and up this into Annandale, and
from NE to SW by a line from Edinburgh by Carstairs
and Muirkirk to Ayr — both of the latter routes being
on the Caledonian system. The Lanarkshire and
Dumbartonshire railway of the same system connects
these two counties by way of Glasgow. The Forth and
Clyde Canal passes through the NW corner of the
county; and the Monkland Canal, branching off at
Maryhill N of Glasgow, winds eastward by Coatbridge
to Calderbank. Several new bridges have lately been
erected, the most important being those over the Clyde
at Cambuslang, Dalmarnock, and Rutherglen (1894).
In 1893 the supply of water of the middle ward had
become so inadequate that in the summer something
approaching a water famine was experienced. Nine
water-supply districts had been formed, but only six
of these had been provided with water, and even these
had been inadequate from the beginning or had become
so from the natural increase of the districts — those out-
side these water-supply districts having to be content
with water from wells, pits, and streams, all more or
less contaminated. The District Committee of the
County Council resolved to introduce a general supply
commensurate with the needs of their district. The
plan adopted has the Glengavel Water as a source of
supply, with a reservoir near High Plewlands having a
catchment of 3700 acres and a capacity of 600,000,000
gallons. From the reservoir a 21-inch pipe, capable of
carrying 2,500,000 gallons per day, leads to filters on the
high ground above Strathaven railway station, at an eleva-
tion sufficient to supply Strathaven and the whole middle
ward by gravitation, with the exception of a few places
either too distant or too elevated, and which must be
dealt with separately. The scheme was estimated to
cost over £200,000.
The royal burghs in Lanarkshire are Glasgow, Lanark,
and Rutherglen: the parliamentary burghs are Hamilton
and Airdrie; the burghs of baronyare Biggar, Strathaven,
and East Kilbride; and the police burghs are Biggar,
Govan, Kinning-Park, Motherwell, Partick, and Wishaw.
Places of over 2000 inhabitants are: — Airdrie, Baillies-
ton, Bellshill, Blantyre, Bothwell, Cambuslang (includ-
ing Kirkhill, Coats, Silverbanks, and Wellshothill),
Carluke, Coatbridge (including Gartsherrie, Langloan,
High Coats, and Burnbank), Glasgow, Govan, Hamilton,
Holytown (including new Stevenston), Kirkintilloch
(part of), Lanark, Larkhall, Mossend, Motherwell,
Newmains (including Coltness Ironworks), Partick,
Rutherglen, Shettleston (including Eastmuir and Sandy-
hill), Stonefield, Stonehouse, Strathaven, Tollcross,
(including Fullarton), Uddingston, and Wishaw (includ-
ing Craigneuk); places with populations between 100
and 2000 . are Allan ton, Auchenheath, Auchinairn,
Auchentibber, Avonhead, Bargeddie and Dykehead
(including Cuilhill), Barnhill, Biggar, Bishopbriggs,
Blantyre Works, Bothwell Park, Braehead, Braidwood
(including Harestanes and Thornice), Broomhouse,
Busby (part of), Cadzow, Calderbank, Caldercruix,
Carfin, Carmunnock, Carmyle, Carnbroe and Brewster -
ford, Carnwath, Carstairs, Carstairs Junction, Castlehill,
Chapel and Stirling Bridge, Chapelhall, Chapelton,
Chryston and Muirhead, Cleland (including Omoa),
Clyde Iron-works, Clydesdale (including Fulwood and
Milnwood), Crossford, Darngaber (including Quarter),
Darngavel, Douglas, Douglas Park, Dunlop Place,
LANARKSHIRE
Dykehead, Eastfield, East Kilbride, East Langrigg,
Eddlewood, Faskine and Palace Craig (including Hill-
head), Ferniegair, Flemington, Forth, Garnkirk (includ-
ing Crow Row and Heathfield), Garnqueen and Glenboig,
Gartcosh, Gartgill, Glengowan, Greengairs, Halfway,
Hallside, Hamilton Palace Colliery Rows, Harthiil,
Haywood, Hazelbank, Jerviston Square aud Coalhall,
Kirkfieldbank, Kirkmuirhill, Lambhill, Law, Leadhills,
Lesmahagow, Longriggend, Millerston and Hogganfield,
Moffat, Morningside and Torbush, Mount Vernon,
Muirhead or West Benhar, Muirmadken, Nackerton
(including Aitkenhead), Netherburn, Newarthill, New
Lanark, New Monkland and Glenmavis, Newlands,
Newton, Newton Colliery, Overtown, Plains, Riggend,
Rigside, Roughrigg, Salsburgh, Shotts Ironworks (in-
cluding Torbothie), Southfield and Blackwood, Spittal
Colliery Rows, Stane (including Burnbrae), Stepps,
SwinhUl, Tannochside, Tarbrax, Thornwood, Udston,
Waterloo, Wattston, Westburn, West Langrigg, West
Maryston, West Quarter, Whiterigg, Wilsontown (in-
cluding Rootpark), and Yieldshields Roadmeetings,
besides a few smaller villages.
The county has forty-one entire quoad civilia parishes.
These with reference to the different wards are: — Upper
Ward — Biggar, Carluke, Carmichael, Carnwath, Car-
stairs, Covington and Thankerton, Crawford, Crawford-
john, Culter, Dolphinton, Douglas, Dunsyre, Laming-
ton and Wandell, Lanark, Lesmahagow, Libberton,
Pettinain, Symington, Walston, and Wiston and
Roberton. Middle Ward — Avondale, Blantyre, Both-
well, Cambuslang, Cambusnethan, Dalserf, Dalzell,
East Kilbride, Glassford, Hamilton, Old Monkland,
New Monkland, Shotts, Stonehouse. Lower Ward —
Cadder, Carmunnock, Glasgow — Barony, City, Gorbals,
and Govan — Maryhill, Rutherglen, Shettleston, and
Springburn. The quoad sacra parishes of Airdrie,
Baillieston, Bargeddie, Bellshill, Burnbank, Cadzow,
Calderbank, Caldercruix, Calderbead, Chapelton, Chrys-
ton, Clarkston, Cleland, Coats, Coltness, Dalziel South,
Douglas Water, Forth, Flowerhill, Gartsherrie, Garturk,
Greengairs, those connected with Glasgow, Harthiil,
Hogganfield, Holytown, Kirkfieldbank, Larkhall, Lan-
ark St Leonards, Law, Leadhills, Lenzie (part), Over-
town, Stonefield, Uddingston, Wishaw, and Rutherglen
West and Rutherglen Wardlawhill, are also included.
Nine of the parishes are in the presbytery of Biggar in-
the synod of Lothian and Tweeddale, and the others are
in the presbyteries of Glasgow, Hamilton, and Lanark
in the synod of Glasgow and Ayr. Exclusive of those
in Glasgow and its neighbourhood, including Govan,
there are 60 places of worship connected with the Free
Church, 45 in connection with the United Presbyterian
Church, 1 in connection with the United Original Se-
ceders, 4 in connection with the Congregational Church,
13 in connection with the Evangelical Union, 7 in con-
nection with the Baptist Church, 2 in connection with
the Wesleyan Methodist Church, 2 in connection with
the Reformed Presbyterian Church, 12 in connection
with the Episcopal Church, and 32 in connection with
the Roman Catholic Church. In the year ending Sept.
1894 there were in the county 387 schools, of which 279
were public, with accommodation for 181,665 children.
These had 178,056 on the rolls, and an average attend-
ance of 146,541. The staff consisted of 1S98 certificated,
541 assistant, and 959 pupil teachers. The parliamen-
tary constituencies of the six divisions in 1S95-96 were
—Govan, 12,070; Partick, 13,633: North-Western,
12,659; North-Eastern, 14,549; Mid, 12,008; and
.Southern, 9208.
Lanarkshire — exclusive of Glasgow, which was con-
stituted a county of a city in 1893, with the lord-
provost as lord-lieutenant — is governed by a lord-lieu-
tenant, a vice-lieutenant, 56 deputy-lieutenants, and
389 justices of the peace, of whom 75 are for the upper
ward, 156 for the middle ward, and 158 for the lower
ward. The County Council is composed of 70 elected
members — 12 for the upper ward, 29 for the middle
ward, and 21 for the lower ward, besides 5 for the
burgh of Coatbridge, 2 for that of Rutherglen, and 1
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