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Coatbridge history
Coatbridge owes its name to a bridge that carried the old Edinburgh-Glasgow road over the Gartsherrie Burn. This first appears on Roy’s survey of 1755 as Cottbrig, one of a number of places on the wider Coats estate.
Early history: from Bronze Age to Middle Ages
Settlement of the Coatbridge area dates back 3000 years to the Mesolithic Age. A circle of Bronze Age stone coffins was found on the Drumpellier estate in 1852. A number of other Bronze Age urns and relics have been found in Coatbridge.
Middle Ages to late 18th century
The Monklands area inherited its name after the area was granted to the Cistercian monks of Newbattle Abbey by King Malcolm IV in 1162. The Monks mined coal and farmed the land until the time of the reformation when the land was taken from them and given to private landowners.
19th century
The Monkland Canal was constructed at the end of the 18th century to transport coal to Glasgow from the rich local deposits. The invention of the hot blast furnace process in 1828 meant that Coatbridge’s ironstone deposits could be exploited to the maximum by the canal link and hot blast process. By the mid 19th century there were numerous hot blast furnaces in operation in Coatbridge. Over the course of the following forty years the population of Coatbridge grew by 600%.
20th/21st centuries
Coatbridge was the most overcrowded place in Scotland in the 1930s and 1930s. As late as 1936 the town had the worst slum housing in Scotland. Massive state-sponsored programmes saw thousands of new homes built in Coatbridge. The town’s population has continued to fall and has been dubbed the ‘most dismal in Scotland’
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