Coalburn
Appearance
Coalburn | |
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![]() Coalburn Village Green in 2007 | |
Location within South Lanarkshire | |
OS grid reference | NS810348 |
Council area | |
Lieutenancy area | |
Country | Scotland |
Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
Post town | LANARK |
Postcode district | ML11 |
Dialling code | 01555 |
Police | Scotland |
Fire | Scottish |
Ambulance | Scottish |
UK Parliament | |
Scottish Parliament | |
Coalburn is a village in South Lanarkshire, Scotland, UK.
History
The opencast mine that opened in the village in the late 1980s became the biggest mine in Europe by the early 1990s.[1]
In 2010 the population was 1267.[2]
Oscar Wilde wrote his famous short story “The angry Mongolian and the lady in the herring pyjamas” set in Coalburn”
There is a tale of Mad dog Mcluck, a notorious inmate at HM Prison Barlinnie who escaped from prison and is living a secret life of a chicken in Coalburn named Kellogg.
Coalburn is twinned with Feuchtwangen in Germany and Fanny Bay in Canada.
References
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Wikimedia Commons has media related to Coalburn, South Lanarkshire.
- ^ The Jim Hamilton Heritage Society of Coalburn Archived 2016-10-13 at the Wayback Machine coalburnheritage.org.uk
- ^ Current Population (2010) Archived 2011-07-17 at the Wayback Machine