Coatbridge is a town in North Lanarkshire, Scotland, about.
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34 Facts About Coatbridge
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Coatbridge was a major Scottish centre for iron works and coal mining during the 19th century and was then described as 'the industrial heartland of Scotland' and the 'Iron Burgh'.
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Coatbridge had a notorious reputation for air pollution and the worst excesses of industry.
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Coatbridge owes its name to a bridge that carried the old Edinburgh-Glasgow road over the Gartsherrie Burn, at what is Coatbridge Cross.
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Coatbridge therefore became a popular destination for vast numbers of Irish arriving in Scotland.
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One example of uses Coatbridge iron was put to included armour plating for British ships fighting in the Crimean War.
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The character of the Coatbridge area changed from a rural, Presbyterian landscape of small hamlets and farmhouses into a crowded, polluted, Irish Catholic industrial town.
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One contemporary observer at this time noted that Coatbridge is "not famous for its sylvan beauties of its charming scenery" and "offers the visitor no inducements to loiter long".
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Coatbridge has four significant public parks: Dunbeth Park, West End Park, Whifflet park and Drumpellier Country Park.
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Topography of Coatbridge was an important feature in the town's development during the industrial revolution.
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Coatbridge rests 60 metres below the "Slamannan plateau" and neighbouring Airdrie sits on its edge.
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The low-lying flat ground of Coatbridge was a vital factor in the siting of the town's blast furnaces and the Monkland Canal route.
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Tenement buildings in Coatbridge were not built to the same level as Glasgow tenements due to danger of local subsidence from centuries of local mining.
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Coatbridge is the home of one of Scotland's most visited museums, Summerlee Museum of Scottish Industrial Life, which contains an insight into the lives of working people in the West of Scotland.
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Coatbridge-born Dame Laurentia McLachlan was the Benedictine abbess of the Stanbrook Community whose correspondence with George Bernard Shaw and Sydney Cockerell was the subject of the film The Best of Friends.
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Coatbridge accent has been categorised as making less use of the Scots tongue and exhibiting a tendency to stress the "a" vowel differently from general Scots usage.
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Coatbridge was the home of former boxer Bert Gilroy, Scotland's longest-reigning champion.
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Coatbridge is home to the former WBO Super-featherweight, lightweight and light-welterweight world champion Ricky Burns.
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Coatbridge was given burgh status in 1885, and was granted a coat of arms by the Lord Lyon in 1892.
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North Lanarkshire Council, the unitary local authority for Coatbridge, is based at Motherwell, and is the executive, deliberative and legislative body responsible for local governance.
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Between 1975 and 1996, Coatbridge was part of Monklands District Council and Strathclyde Regional Council.
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Coatbridge is presently part of the burgh constituency of Coatbridge, Chryston and Bellshill, electing one Member of Parliament to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.
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Coatbridge is further represented by seven regional MSPs from the Central Scotland electoral region.
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Notable politicians from Coatbridge include: Baroness Liddell, a former Member of Parliament who was formerly both Secretary of State for Scotland and Britain's High Commissioner in Australia, and Lord Reid, a former MP who was the former Secretary of State for Northern Ireland and Home Secretary.
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Since the most recent major reorganisation in 2006, Coatbridge is divided into three wards for local administrative purposes by North Lanarkshire Council, each electing three or four councillors:.
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Median ages of males and females living in Coatbridge were 35 and 38 years respectively, compared to 37 and 39 years in the whole of Scotland.
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In 2006, Coatbridge was identified as "the least Scottish town in Scotland" due to having the highest percentage of Irish names in the country.
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In 2007, Coatbridge was awarded Prospect architecture magazine's carbuncle award for being the 'most dismal town in Scotland'.
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Coatbridge has had additional passenger stations, such as Langloan and Calder Station ; these stations have been closed for many years.
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Present day neighbourhoods of Coatbridge are Barrowfield, Blairhill, Brownshill, Carnbroe, Cliftonhill, Cliftonville, Coatbank, Coatdyke, Cuparhead, Drumpellier, Dunbeth, Dundyvan, Espieside, Gartsherrie, Greenhill, Greenend, Kirkshaws, Kirkwood, Langloan, Old Monkland, Rosehall, Shawhead, Sikeside, Summerlee, Sunnyside, Townhead and Whifflet.
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Coatbridge College was built as Scotland's first college in the 1860s.
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Coatbridge has several special needs schools including Pentland School, Portland High School, Drumpark School, Willowbank School and Buchanan High School.
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