New Lanark Mill Hotel and Waterhouses by River Clyde
New Lanark
Location within South Lanarkshire
Population
200 (approx.)
Council area
South Lanarkshire
Lieutenancy area
Lanarkshire
Country
Scotland
Sovereign state
United Kingdom
Post town
LANARK
Postcode district
ML11
Dialling code
01555
Police
Scotland
Fire
Scottish
Ambulance
Scottish
UK Parliament
Lanark and Hamilton East
Scottish Parliament
Clydesdale
UNESCO World Heritage Site
Criteria
Cultural: ii, iv, vi
Reference
429
Inscription
2001 (25th Session)
Area
146 ha (361 acres)
Buffer zone
667 ha (1,648 acres)
List of places
UK
Scotland
55°40′N3°47′W / 55.66°N 3.78°W / 55.66; -3.78
New Lanark is a village on the River Clyde, approximately 1.4 miles (2.3 kilometres) from Lanark, in Lanarkshire, and some 25 miles (40 km) southeast of Glasgow, Scotland. It was founded in 1785 and opened in 1786 by David Dale, who built cotton mills and housing for the mill workers. Dale built the mills there in a brief partnership with the English inventor and entrepreneur Richard Arkwright to take advantage of the water power provided by the only waterfalls on the River Clyde. Under the ownership of a partnership that included Dale's son-in-law, Robert Owen, a Welsh utopian socialist and philanthropist, New Lanark became a successful business and an early example of a planned settlement and so an important milestone in the historical development of urban planning.[1]
The New Lanark mills operated until 1968. After a period of decline, the New Lanark Conservation Trust (NLCT) was founded in 1974 (now known as the New Lanark Trust (NLT)) to prevent demolition of the village. By 2006 most of the buildings have been restored and the village has become a major tourist attraction. It is one of six UNESCO World Heritage Sites in Scotland[2] and an Anchor Point of ERIH – the European Route of Industrial Heritage.
^Bell, Colin and Rose (1972) City Fathers: The Early History of Town Planning in Britain. Penguin, Harmondsworth.
^"21 World Heritage Sites you have probably never heard of". The Daily Telegraph. 4 February 2016.
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education. He gained wealth in the early 1800s from a textile mill at NewLanark, Scotland. Having trained as a draper in Stamford, Lincolnshire he worked...
mills in NewLanark, where he provided social and educational conditions far in advance of anything available anywhere else in the UK. NewLanark attracted...
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opened the first British and probably globally the first infant school in NewLanark, Scotland. In conjunction with his venture for cooperative mills Owen...
towns such as Lanark, Strathaven and Carluke, the urban burghs of Rutherglen, Cambuslang, and East Kilbride which was Scotland's first new town. East Kilbride...
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opened the first British and probably globally the first infants school in NewLanark, Scotland. In conjunction with his venture for cooperative mills, Owen...
for his pioneering efforts in improving conditions for workers at the NewLanark mills, and is often[quantify] regarded as one of the key thinkers of the...
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"The Beano artists". The History of The Beano: The Story So Far. Dundee; NewLanark: DC Thomson; Waverly Books. pp. 64–7. ISBN 978-1-902407-73-9. Riches,...
for at least the first two years of any new Labour government. After its election victory in May 1997, the new government considered multiple options for...
Scotland, where he assisted David Dale in establishing cotton mills at NewLanark. A large mill of Arkwright's at Birkacre in Lancashire, was destroyed...
around the workplace. An early example of an industrial model village was NewLanark built by Robert Owen. Philanthropic coal owners provided decent accommodation...
of Lanark, where the late 17th- and early 18th-century industrialists David Dale and Robert Owen built mills and the model settlement of NewLanark on...
below. They are: St. Kilda Edinburgh Old Town and New Town The Heart of Neolithic Orkney NewLanark The Antonine Wall The Forth Bridge St. Kilda is a...
Robert Owen, to produce a “Report to the County of Lanark” in May 1820, which recommended a new form of pauper relief; the cooperative village. Owen's...
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